Upload and extract..

[ashwood]

How would i upload a zip or rar file and it automatically extract to a folder of my choice so that the rar or zip had been uploaded but i have the contents extracted else where if that makes sense..

thanks

[jacek]

Many many code samples http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q= ... ct+archive

[ashwood]

Is there any tutorials been done? I find it hard to work off code thats just bunshed up because you don't know what any of it mean. Tutorials explain therefore i learn

[jacek]

I haven’t done one, but it's not a new idea so you probably will find one.

Example #1 on this page http://php.net/manual/en/function.zipar ... ractto.php pretty much sums up the basics.

[ashwood]

im sure i will find something no chance you could do a tutorial on it though? It can't take that long can it surely? would be much appraciated :)

[jacek]

If you are making that an official suggestion I might

[ashwood]

Yes Yes i am please can you do a tutorial showing how to upload a zip/rar and it extracting to a folder of your choice but still keeping the zip/rar file on the server somewhere (of your choice)

my official suggestion (A)

please tell me if you can do it so i can watch out for it

[jacek]

I can do that, some time this week probably. It should be a pretty quick one.

[ashwood]

I can do that, some time this week probably. It should be a pretty quick one.

cheers mate please link me up asap!! thanks

[EcazS]

If you upload it and then it extracts wouldn't you have to wait a really long time? o_O

[jacek]

If you upload it and then it extracts wouldn't you have to wait a really long time? o_O

Possibly, it would be extracted while the "upload done" page was loading, to the user it would just be the same as the file taking a bit longer to upload.

[bowersbros]

But with a powerful server like Jaceks, I imagine it wouldnt be that noticable.

[EcazS]

But with a powerful server like Jaceks, I imagine it wouldnt be that noticable.

Unless someone uploads a 10GB file. Like a Blu-Ray 1080p Movie.... I hate how big they are, just FYI.

[jacek]

Yeah a large file would take a lot longer, but it would also take longer to upload so they might not notice as much ?

Also, it would be pretty hard to actually accept a file upload of 10GB on even a average server.