Re: open .zip from memory...

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On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 10:12 -0700, Jim Lucas wrote:
> Steve Staples wrote:
> > Not sure if my subject is misleading or not, but anyway, here it goes...
> > 
> > I am trying to download a file using file_get_contents($url) which
> > happens to be a .zip file.
> > 
> > I have no issues downloading the file, saving it to the harddrive,
> > opening it, and getting what i need from it... but what I am trying to
> > do, is not save it to disk, but to just grab the .zip file, and open it
> > in memory, grab the file i need from it, and then discard the .zip file,
> > and parse out the file i grabbed (this would prevent having a folder
> > with R/W access that could possibly be set wrong, or using the /tmp
> > folder)
> > 
> > Again, I dont have any issues doing it where i save it first, but when I
> > try to use the file from memory, i get errors saying that it can't open
> > the zip file becuase it has no valid resource id#.
> > 
> > The zip commands i am using, are the php ones zip_open, zip_read,
> > zip_entry_read, zip_entry_name, zip_entry_filesize and obviously
> > zip_close.
> > 
> > Can this be done, or should I just forget it, and use the /tmp dir?
> > 
> > Steve.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> Might see if this page will glean you any information
> 
> http://us3.php.net/manual/en/wrappers.php.php
> 
> I think the php://temp or php://memory will work for you instead of a file on
> the file system.
> 
> Jim
> 

Jim:

That is exactly what I was looking for... man, I feel dumb...   I was
looking at the tmpfile() and tmpname() but it wasn't quite what i was
looking for.   I've use the php://xxx before, but it slipped my mind.

thanks again :)  I will implement this tonight :)

Steve



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