Issue on Reading .txt inside a Zipped File by PHP [duplicate] - php

Question

I need to read the content of a single file, "test.txt", inside of a zip file. The whole zip file is a very large file (2gb) and contains a lot of files (10,000,000), and as such extracting the whole thing is not a viable solution for me. How can I read a single file?

Answer 1

Try using the zip:// wrapper:
$handle = fopen('zip://test.zip#test.txt', 'r');
$result = '';
while (!feof($handle)) {
$result .= fread($handle, 8192);
}
fclose($handle);
echo $result;
You can use file_get_contents too:
$result = file_get_contents('zip://test.zip#test.txt');
echo $result;

Answer 2

Please note #Rocket-Hazmat fopen solution may cause an infinite loop if a zip file is protected with a password, since fopen will fail and feof fails to return true.
You may want to change it to
$handle = fopen('zip://file.zip#file.txt', 'r');
$result = '';
if ($handle) {
while (!feof($handle)) {
$result .= fread($handle, 8192);
}
fclose($handle);
}
echo $result;
This solves the infinite loop issue, but if your zip file is protected with a password then you may see something like
Warning: file_get_contents(zip://file.zip#file.txt): failed to open
stream: operation failed
There's a solution however
As of PHP 7.2 support for encrypted archives was added.
So you can do it this way for both file_get_contents and fopen
$options = [
'zip' => [
'password' => '1234'
]
];
$context = stream_context_create($options);
echo file_get_contents('zip://file.zip#file.txt', false, $context);
A better solution however to check if a file exists or not before reading it without worrying about encrypted archives is using ZipArchive
$zip = new ZipArchive;
if ($zip->open('file.zip') !== TRUE) {
exit('failed');
}
if ($zip->locateName('file.txt') !== false) {
echo 'File exists';
} else {
echo 'File does not exist';
}
This will work (no need to know the password)
Note: To locate a folder using locateName method you need to pass it like folder/ with a
forward slash at the end.