PHP Zip Archive - open or extractTo is not working - php

Question

I'm completely at a loss for explaining why this isn't working. HELP!
$archive = "x.zip";
$zip = new ZipArchive();
$res = $zip->open($archive);
if ($res === 'TRUE') {
$unzip_success= $zip->extractTo('/temp/', "inscriptions.txt")
$zip->close();
}
the target dir "temp" is "0777" permissions
the code obtained from $res is "11" and not "TRUE" as required by the documentation on PHP.net
note: must put the full url for $archive and the first argument of extractTo

Answer 1

if nothing works then check if your server is linux.
if its linux you can run unzip command to unzip your file via php's system/exec function.
i.e
system("unzip archive.zip");
to extract specific file you can check man docs for unzip. many times due to server parameters zip library doesn't work as expected in that cases i switch back to linux commands.

Answer 2

The problem is that you are quoting TRUE, which is a keyword and should be left without single quotes. Plus, you could check if the file exists in the zip archive prior to its extraction with locateName:
$archive = "x.zip";
$zip = new ZipArchive();
$res = $zip->open($archive);
if ($res === true && $zip->locateName('inscriptions.txt') !== false) {
$unzip_success= $zip->extractTo('/tmp/', "inscriptions.txt");
$zip->close();
}

Answer 3

ZipArcive::extractTo is case-sensitive. If file's name to be extracted do not meet zipped one exactly, the method returns false.

Answer 4

I faced the same problem, I have fixed this :)
Use $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] for url.
My code (codeigniter):
$this->load->library('unzip');
$file = $this->input->GET('file');
$this->unzip->extract($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/TRAS/application/uploads/' . $file,$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/TRAS/application/views/templates/' . $file);

Answer 5

If $res is equal to 11, that means that ZipArchive can't open the specified file.
To test this:
$archive = "x.zip";
$zip = new ZipArchive();
$res = $zip->open($archive);
if($res == ZipArchive::ER_OPEN){
echo "Unable to open $archive\n";
}

Answer 6

Adding document root is what worked for me as well. here is my code
$zip = new ZipArchive;
if ($zip->open($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/'.$folder.$file_path) === TRUE) {
$zip->extractTo($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/$folder');
$zip->close();
echo 'ok';
}

Answer 7

I meet same problem, but I can open the zip file, it returns true after open.
My issue is I got false after $zip->extractTo().
I finally success after delete files named in CHINESE (NO-ENGILISH) in the zip file.

Answer 8

I had the same problem on Windows 10. The only solution I found was just to try extractTo twice, even though the open() was successful:
$zip = new ZipArchive;
if ($open === true) {
$result = $zip->extractTo($destination);
if ($result === false) {
$result = $zip->extractTo($destination);
}
$zip->close();
}
The fact that the second extractTo() works (with no intervening action) would seem to indicate that there's nothing wrong with the archive or the destination directory.