extracting from zip files

[niyogi]

I don't know whether there are functions built-in natively or freely available to extract files from ZIP files. (i.e. ones that are created with WinZip, etc.)

I see built-in support for gz creation/extraction but am more interested in anything for zip files. Thanks in advance!

-Surojit

[Anon]

See http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.zip.php
Or externall run the unzip binary that's probably installed on your box.

zip/unzip for almost any platform is available here.
http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/

[Anon]

thanks for the link. The thing is that it talks about 4.0.7 which isn't even releaseed yet (to the best of my knowledge)

Do you know how well the exec() function works with a unzip console command? i.e. is it fast enough? too slow?

Thanks!

-Surojit

[Anon]

Guess you don't really have a choice at the moment. Try timing how long it takes to unzip with code like this.

$time = microtime();
// Unzip file here
$time2 = microtime();
$time = explode(" ", $time);
$time2 = explode(" ", $time2);
echo(($time2[1] - $time[1]) + ($time2[0] - $time[0]));