Merlin Morgenstern wrote:
>
>
> Shawn McKenzie wrote:
>> Merlin Morgenstern wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> I am trying to unzip a zip file. Therefore I am using this function:
>>>
>>> # unzip a file
>>> function extract_zipfile($filename){
>>> $zip = zip_open($filename);
>>> if ($zip) {
>>> while ($zip_entry = zip_read($zip)) {
>>> $fp = fopen(zip_entry_name($zip_entry), "w");
>>> if (zip_entry_open($zip, $zip_entry, "r")) {
>>> $buf = zip_entry_read($zip_entry,
>>> zip_entry_filesize($zip_entry));
>>> fwrite($fp,"$buf");
>>> zip_entry_close($zip_entry);
>>> fclose($fp);
>>> }
>>> }
>>> zip_close($zip);
>>> }
>>> }
>>>
>>> It works, but unfortunatelly the extracted files are all placed into the
>>> directory where the php file is located. Not where the original zip file
>>> was found. I tried to add the directory to fwrite, but without success.
>>>
>>> Does somebody know where to specify the target directory?
>>>
>>> Thank you for any help,
>>>
>>> Merlin
>>
>> Try this:
>>
>> $fp = fopen(dirname($filename) . '/' . zip_entry_name($zip_entry), "w");
>>
>
> thank you this worked. How come the . '/' . zip_entry_name($zip_entry)
> is needed? Looks like a double file name, but the result is ok. Could
> you explain this line? Thank you!
>
> Kind regards
Well, I've never used the zip functions, but it appears taht $zip_entry
is a resource for the entry in the zip file zip_entry_name($zip_entry)
returns the path and name of the entry in the zip file. So you need to
get the dir of the actual zip file and then append the name of the file
in the zip.
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Thanks!
-Shawn
http://www.spidean.com
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