ZipArchive
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ZipArchive::getStream

Get a file handler to the entry defined by its name (read only)

Description

public resourcefalse ZipArchive::getStream(string $name)

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)) {
        $contents .= fread($fp, 2);
    }

    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)) {
    $contents .= fread($fp, 2);
}
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');
?>

See Also