Making a temporary dir for unpacking a zipfile into

Question

I have a script that checks a zipfile containing a number of matching PDF+textfiles. I want to unpack, or somehow read the textfiles from the zipfile, and just pick out some

Answer 1

So I first found a post by Ron Korving on PHP.net, which I then modified to make a bit safer (from endless loops, invalid characters, and unwritable parent dirs) and use a bit more entropy.

|') !== false)
    {
        return false;
    }

    /* Attempt to create a random directory until it works. Abort if we reach
     * $maxAttempts. Something screwy could be happening with the filesystem
     * and our loop could otherwise become endless.
     */
    $attempts = 0;
    do
    {
        $path = sprintf('%s%s%s%s', $dir, DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, $prefix, mt_rand(100000, mt_getrandmax()));
    } while (
        !mkdir($path, $mode) &&
        $attempts++ < $maxAttempts
    );

    return $path;
}
?>

So, let's try it out:

Result:

/var/folders/v4/647wm24x2ysdjwx6z_f07_kw0000gp/T/tmp_900342820
bool(true)
bool(true)
bool(true)

/tmp/stack_1102047767
bool(true)
bool(true)
bool(true)

/var/folders/v4/647wm24x2ysdjwx6z_f07_kw0000gp/T/stack_638989419
bool(true)
bool(true)
bool(true)