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Description

mixed ZipArchive::open ( string $filename [, int $flags ] )

Opens a new zip archive for reading, writing or modifying.

Parameters

filename

The file name of the ZIP archive to open.

flags

The mode to use to open the archive.

ZIPARCHIVE::OVERWRITE
ZIPARCHIVE::CREATE
ZIPARCHIVE::EXCL
ZIPARCHIVE::CHECKCONS

Return Values

Error codes

Returns TRUE on success or the error code.

ZIPARCHIVE::ER_EXISTS
ZIPARCHIVE::ER_INCONS
ZIPARCHIVE::ER_INVAL
ZIPARCHIVE::ER_MEMORY
ZIPARCHIVE::ER_NOENT
ZIPARCHIVE::ER_NOZIP
ZIPARCHIVE::ER_OPEN
ZIPARCHIVE::ER_READ
ZIPARCHIVE::ER_SEEK

Examples

This example opens a ZIP file archive, reads each file in the archive and prints out its contents. The test2.zip archive used in this example is one of the test archives in the ZZIPlib source distribution.

Example #1 Open and extract

 <?php
$zip = new ZipArchive;
$res = $zip->open('test.zip')
if ($res === TRUE) {
    echo 'ok';
    $zip->extractTo('test');
    $zip->close();
} else {
    echo 'failed, code:' . $res;
}
?>

Example #2 Create an archive

 <?php
$zip = new ZipArchive;
$res = $zip->open('test.zip', ZipArchive::CREATE);
if ($res === TRUE) {
    $zip->addFromString('test.txt', 'file content goes here');
    $zip->addFile('data.txt', 'entryname.txt');
    $zip->close();
    echo 'ok';
} else {
    echo 'failed';
}
?>