How can I unzip a .gz file with PHP?

Question

I\'m using CodeIgniter and I can\'t figure out how to unzip files!

Answer 1

Use the extractTo function from PharData.

$source is the .gz archive file you want to unzip and $destDir the directory you want to extract them to.

$phar = new PharData($source);
$phar->extractTo($destDir,null,true); // extract all files, overwrites existing files