Reading files from ZIP without extracting to disk

Question

Is it possible to open a ZIP file on a server, read a file from its content and display it / send it to a client directly without extracting it to disk first ? I am talking about pdf's and images. Haven't found any hints in the php sites.

Possible duplicate of [How to read a single file inside a zip archive](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10420112/how-to-read-a-single-file-inside-a-zip-archive) — cmorrissey, Oct 20 '16 at 17:30

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 20 '16 at 18:48

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Well,there is a PHP Extension. If you use the extractTo method, you would be able to extract a single file, checkout the documentation.

From the documentation, extracting two files:-

<?php
$zip = new ZipArchive;
$res = $zip->open('test_im.zip');
if ($res === TRUE) {
    $zip->extractTo('/my/destination/dir/', array('pear_item.gif', 'testfromfile.php'));
    $zip->close();
    echo 'ok';
} else {
    echo 'failed';
}
?>

You would need to provide an array of path inside the zip.

answered Oct 20 '16 at 18:48

Shaurya Chaudhuri

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not quite right - if you only want a single file then just the filename and/or path not an array. You supply an array if you are extracting multiple files I believe. So, $zip->extractTo('/my/destination/dir/', 'pear_item.gif'); if you only want pear_item.gif. – l0ckm4 Oct 31 '19 at 09:39

Reading files from ZIP without extracting to disk

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