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

There are a lot of overkill answers to this question. One simple answer would be:

$tempdir = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir()) . 'dir';
mkdir($tempdir);

1. Obtain a temporary file name.
2. Create the directory (append a suffix to temp file, to avoid file name collision.)
3. Done.