How to Unzip Folders on the Server Using a Simple PHP Script

7 Comments

1. Paul Alvares on March 22, 2010 at 8:31 pm

   Champ! it works great =]

   
   
   
2. RB on May 25, 2010 at 1:26 pm

   You are fantastic!!! Saved me so much time after spending a couple of hours trying to figure out(I’m new to this)…thank you! (O:

   
   
   
3. be on September 18, 2010 at 6:23 am

   Warning: system() has been disabled for security reasons…

   it doesn’t work.

   
   
   
   • Toby on September 28, 2010 at 9:22 am

     That is an issue with your hosting provider.

     
     
     
4. raoul on August 19, 2011 at 8:54 am

   hm.. no luck. Script runs fine. Just no result.

   
   
   
5. toby on August 30, 2011 at 12:17 pm

   @raoul and @be – The issue is likely your server setup. Contact your hosting provider and ask them to support the function listed above.

   
   
   
6. Vasu on December 22, 2011 at 6:00 am

   Here’s an alternate method:

   $zip = new ZipArchive;
     $zipped = $zip->open('test.zip');
     if ( $zipped ) {
     $zip->extractTo(dirname(__FILE__).'test');
     $zip->close();
   }