PHP Tar Extract w/ Variable - php

Question

Understanding that the following question is not best practices by any means. The tool i am building is for personal use and will not be accessible to the internet in general. With that being said here is the idea or outline of what i am trying to accomplish.
PHP:
define("UPLOAD_DIR", "/var/www/html/uploads/");
if (!empty($_FILES["SANUpload"])) {
$myFile = $_FILES["SANUpload"];
if ($myFile["error"] !== UPLOAD_ERR_OK) {
echo "<p>An error occurred.</p>";
exit;
}
// ensure a safe filename
$name = preg_replace("/[^A-Z0-9._-]/i", "_", $myFile["name"]);
// don't overwrite an existing file
$i = 0;
$parts = pathinfo($name);
while (file_exists(UPLOAD_DIR . $name)) {
$i++;
$name = $parts["filename"] . "-" . $i . "." . $parts["extension"];
}
// preserve file from temporary directory
$success = move_uploaded_file($myFile["tmp_name"],
UPLOAD_DIR . $name);
if (!$success) {
echo "<p>Unable to save file.</p>";
exit;
}
// set proper permissions on the new file
chmod(UPLOAD_DIR . $name, 0644);
$val = shell_exec("tar -xvf $parts -C /var/www/html/uploads 2>&1");
echo '$val';
}
The goal is once it gets uploaded I need to sort the files and put them in the correct spots. The upload will ALWAYS be a TAR file because the scripts that i built for it the ONLY output is a tar file.
My goal is to extract the tar file in uploads directory and then run move commands to move the files where they need to be. Then do a clean up and delete any files in the UPLOADS dir.
I found this example on here :
$val = shell_exec("tar -xvf $parts -C /var/www/html/uploads 2>&1");
echo '$val';
This is another component i am looking at as well:
try {
$phar = new PharData('myphar.tar');
$phar->extractTo('/full/path'); // extract all files
$phar->extractTo('/another/path', 'file.txt'); // extract only file.txt
$phar->extractTo('/this/path',
array('file1.txt', 'file2.txt')); // extract 2 files only
$phar->extractTo('/third/path', null, true); // extract all files, and overwrite
} catch (Exception $e) {
// handle errors
}
The problem I am having with PharData is that it doesn't like the $path or $name variables. The same can be said for the example above PharData. Since the upload script could have different names I need to have the ability to unzip the file as a variable or to use a variable in the php script.
Technically - the script I have would keep the tar name the same however I could see a use case where someone might change that. So want to make sure that I have the option to address that.
So question is how do i extract a tar file - utilizing a variable name rather than have it spelled out and the actual name of the file all in PHP?

Answer 1

Figured out the issue - i needed to utilize the UPLOAD_DIR . $name in the pharData.
try {
$phar = new PharData(UPLOAD_DIR . $name);
$phar->extractTo(UPLOAD_DIR); // extract all files
} catch (Exception $e) {
// handle errors
}