UCE Docs / zip_extract

Signature

bool zip_extract(String zip_file_name, String destination_directory)

Parameters

zip_file_name : path to the ZIP archive
destination_directory : directory that should receive extracted files
return value : true when extraction completes

Extracts every member in a ZIP archive into destination_directory.

UCE creates the destination directory and any needed child directories when they do not already exist.

For safety, every member name is normalized and checked before extraction. Absolute paths, drive-qualified paths, empty names, and .. path segments are rejected so archives cannot write outside the destination directory.

Example

DValue entries;
entries["note.txt"] = "extracted content";
zip_create("/tmp/doc-zipext.zip", entries);
mkdir("/tmp/doc-zipext-out");
zip_extract("/tmp/doc-zipext.zip", "/tmp/doc-zipext-out");
print(file_get_contents("/tmp/doc-zipext-out/note.txt"), "\n");
dir_remove("/tmp/doc-zipext-out", true);
Output
extracted content