Creating and Extracting ZIP Files with PHP..

The_Tim

Anyone have/know of a good way of extracting and creating zip files?

I have an uploader I made that needs to take the uploaded zip file, extract it, rename the contents of it, then put it in the new zip file (with a new name) .. sorry if that sounds vague i'm tired lol..

LordShryku

Easiest way is to use a command line zip program, and call it with exec()

The_Tim

ah shoulda thought of that 🙂

new problem~

<?

// all my upload stuff blah blah

exec('unzip ' . $path . $_FILES['userfile']['name']);

?>

doesn't do anything.. my $path var is fine, the $_FILES['userfile']['name'] is beautimous.. if i do the same thing from ssh it works though~

LordShryku

Just make sure your var's are right. You may also want to try it out with some of the other commands, like shell_exec, if exec just won't work for you.

rheroux

You may want to check out the zip class on Zend.

The_Tim

Problem solved! Thank you for the help!

I'd considered using that class but using exec() is so easy 😉 .. Here's a very stripped down version of what I did incase anyone else wants to do this sometime~

<?

$root_path = dirname(__FILE__);
$upload_dir = '/upload/';
$file = '1v1_Ruso_vs_Jor.mgx';
$filename = basename($file, '.mgx');

exec('zip -r ' . $root_path . $upload_dir . $filename . '.zip ' . $root_path . $upload_dir . $filename . '.mgx');

exec('rm ' . $root_path . $upload_dir . $file . ' -f');

?>