ZipArchive::getStream

(PHP 5 >= 5.2.0, PHP 7, PHP 8, PECL zip >= 1.1.0)

ZipArchive::getStreamGet a file handler to the entry defined by its name (read only)

Description

public ZipArchive::getStream(string $name): resource|false

Get a file handler to the entry defined by its name. For now, it only supports read operations.

Parameters

name

The name of the entry to use.

Return Values

Returns a file pointer (resource) on success or false on failure.

Examples

Example #1 Get the entry contents with fread() and store it

<?php
$contents 
'';
$z = new ZipArchive();
if (
$z->open('test.zip')) {
    
$fp $z->getStream('test');
    if(!
$fp) exit("failed\n");

    while (!
feof($fp)) {
        
$contents .= fread($fp2);
    }

    
fclose($fp);
    
file_put_contents('t',$contents);
    echo 
"done.\n";
}
?>

Example #2 Same as the previous example but with fopen() and the zip stream wrapper

<?php
$contents 
'';
$fp fopen('zip://' dirname(__FILE__) . '/test.zip#test''r');
if (!
$fp) {
    exit(
"cannot open\n");
}
while (!
feof($fp)) {
    
$contents .= fread($fp2);
}
echo 
"$contents\n";
fclose($fp);
echo 
"done.\n";
?>

Example #3 Stream wrapper and image, can be used with the xml function as well

<?php
$im 
imagecreatefromgif('zip://' dirname(__FILE__) . '/test_im.zip#pear_item.gif');
imagepng($im'a.png');
?>

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