Unzip a Zip file using Php

Welcome back to shortlearner.com, Most of the time we need a software like winrar , which are helped us to unzip or extract our zip file . In today’s  tutorial we will see how to unzip a zip file with the help of some predefined php function.

in the below code i have created a function called unzipmyfile which have two parameter $file and another one is  $location . in $file we have passed a zip file name with . zip extension and  $location we declare a suitable path where extracted file should be placed.

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Php provide us a predefined function called  ZipArchive::extractTo . with the help of this function we can easily extract zip archive.

script.php

<?php 

function unzipmyfile($file,$location){
	$zip = new ZipArchive;
	if($zip->open($file)===TRUE){
		$zip->extractTo($location);
		$zip->close();
		return "success" ;
             }
	else{
		return "fail";
	}
}
?>

Now we call this function and pass two parameter, zip file and location where extracted file should be placed.

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<?php 
$file= "update_ajax_tutorial.zip";
$location="myfolder/";
echo unzipmyfile($file,$location);
?>