PHP Unzip very large file

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I have a zip file on the server. It's 1.1gb made up of thousands of small files. I do not have shell or root access to the server and can only use ftp and create php files.. so far I have tried exec and shell exec but none worked. The server is running free bsd. How can I unzip the file into the directory it is in?

Could you edit php.ini? I presume unzipping it in PHP would take a while and would cause a timeout. — Joachim Isaksson, Jun 01 '13 at 22:28
All I have is ftp access into the web root directory, and php is pribably running as a limited user — Ozzy, Jun 01 '13 at 22:33
If you can't change the timeout, I would think just unzipping locally and sending the files unzipped over FTP to the server over night would be the easiest solution. You need the sleep anyway, right? :) — Joachim Isaksson, Jun 01 '13 at 22:35

Paul Dixon · Answer 1 · 2013-06-01T22:36:19.510

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For a pure PHP solution, try PclZip - this would not require you to install any PHP extensions or require shell access - you just need to write access to wherever you want to extract the files.

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answered Jun 01 '13 at 22:30

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 06 '14 at 23:28

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$filename = '/media/file.gz';

$unzipped_content = '';   
$zd = gzopen($filename, "r");
while ($zip_file = gzread($zd, 10000000)){
    $unzipped_content.= $zip_file;
}
gzclose($zd);

echo $unzipped_content;

answered Jul 06 '14 at 23:28

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:21

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Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I ended up modifying the code in this question to unzip the files.

Unzip a file with php

edited May 23 '17 at 12:21

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answered Jun 04 '13 at 00:24

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