ZIP or RAR file support in PHP?

[KMxRetro]

Howdy guys (and gals),
Let's say I have a screenshots archive (which I do ) and I want to upload new screenshots via FTP in ZIP format.

When the ZIP is on the server, is there any way that I can unzip the file through PHP (or CGI for that matter) into a specific directory?

RAR format would be fine too...

Thanks in advance folks,

[burchyk]

Maybe you should play with system execution functions
such as exec() or system() to run arch/unarchiving in shell/cmd

[Michel V]

PHP has support for Zip read access only, so theorically you could do it with zip.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.zip.php


If you find out you cannot use Zip (not every host compiles PHP with this extension), try Gzip (what I would advise actually).
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.zlib.php

To produce Gzip files on Windows, you can use the standalone gzip.exe and gunzip.exe functions for DOS/Cygwin (you'll find them easily), or use PowerArchiver which just happens to be like Winzip, only minus the nagging screen and plus tar/gzip/bzip2 support.