Re: opening remote tar.gz files
| From: | John Ryan | Date: | Wed, 03 Sep 2003 02:03:03 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: opening remote tar.gz files | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.general |
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it definately always only contains one file
"Curt Zirzow" <php-general@zirzow.dyndns.org> wrote in message
news:20030902211435.GV16462@bagend.shire...
> * Thus wrote John Ryan (celticfc@iol.ie):
> > is it possible with PHP to download and open a remote tar.gz file?? I
read
> > in the manual that it is, but it never seems to work for me.
> >
> > I tried opening the file with fopen
> >
> > fopen("zlib://http://www.site.com/update.tar.gz",
> > "r");
> > but it didnt work
> >
> > Then I tried using the zlib functions but they just returned garbage. I
> > think it might have something to do with it not being able to handle
".tar"
>
> What are you trying to do with the file? A tar file can contain
> multiple files and have a directory structure.
>
>
> Curt
> --
> "I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure."