In memory download and extract zip archive

Question

I would like to download a zip archive and unzip it in memory using PHP.

This is what I have today (and it\'s just too much file-handling for me :) ):

Answer 1

You can get a stream to a file inside the zip and extract it into a variable:

$fp = $zip->getStream('test.txt');
if(!$fp) exit("failed\n");

while (!feof($fp)) {
    $contents .= fread($fp, 1024);
}

fclose($fp);