php rar files

[n_wattam]

i've spent most of the day looking for php scripts for dealing with rar files and only come across the same snippit of code.

I can read a rar file from my own server and extract the files, however i want to read a rar file from another server so uring a url link as the source. I get an error straight away as this isnt allowed.

I also want to be able to read the files within the rar file and be able to either save the results of each file into a mysql database or change the file name.

<?php

/* example by Erik Jenssen aka erix */

$filename = "foobar.rar";
$filepath = "/home/foo/bar/";

$rar_file = rar_open($filepath.$filename);
$list = rar_list($rar_file);
foreach($list as $file) {
   $entry = rar_entry_get($rar_file, $file);
   $entry->extract("."); // extract to the current dir
}
rar_close($rar_file);

?>

[mblack0508]

n_wattam;10923071 wrote:

i've spent most of the day looking for php scripts for dealing with rar files and only come across the same snippit of code.

I can read a rar file from my own server and extract the files, however i want to read a rar file from another server so uring a url link as the source. I get an error straight away as this isnt allowed.

I also want to be able to read the files within the rar file and be able to either save the results of each file into a mysql database or change the file name.

<?php

/* example by Erik Jenssen aka erix */

$filename = "foobar.rar";
$filepath = "/home/foo/bar/";

$rar_file = rar_open($filepath.$filename);
$list = rar_list($rar_file);
foreach($list as $file) {
   $entry = rar_entry_get($rar_file, $file);
   $entry->extract("."); // extract to the current dir
}
rar_close($rar_file);

?>

Not too familiar with using rar files with php, but sounds like what you should do to get around this is, download the file to a tmp folder, open it up, do what you need, close and delete tmp file.