Is there a way to unzip zip files using bzip2 or zlib?

[OsvaldoM]

I've looking for a way to unzip zip files without actually installing the zip module and using my defaults bzip2 or zlib. The documentation in zlib claims it cannot due it by itself...

And bzip2, well, it has no documentation pretty much. could someone point me a tutorial or resource that shows how to do it? (in case it's possible).

Thanks in advance

[schilly]

can't you just use exec() to have the server do it?

 

Never had to do this before but I assume that would work.

[Psycho]

If you are using PHP5 and zip support is configured on the server you can use the ZipArchive class. Specifically the extractto method:

 

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ziparchive-extractto.php

[OsvaldoM]

Thanks guys, as it turned out my client just give me the ok to install as many modules as i want so i will be using the zip library.

Though, i found out there is a way with Zlib, check this additional library, couldnt get it to work, but i imagine it should...

http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/minizip.html

[OsvaldoM]

BTW

can't you just use exec() to have the server do it?

 

No i couldn't due to server restrictions

[schilly]

BTW

can't you just use exec() to have the server do it?

 

No i couldn't due to server restrictions

 

ah i see.

 

I saw a ZipArchive example but I hadn't heard of the ZipArchive class before so wasn't sure if it was part of PHP or not. How do you know if it's enabled or not? What is the flag?