Re: open .zip from memory...

On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 10:12 -0700, Jim Lucas wrote: > Steve Staples wrote: > > Not sure if my subject is misleading or not, but anyway, here it goes... > > > > I am trying to download a file using file_get_contents($url) which > > happens to be a .zip file. > > > > I have no issues downloading the file, saving it to the harddrive, > > opening it, and getting what i need from it... but what I am trying to > > do, is not save it to disk, but to just grab the .zip file, and open it > > in memory, grab the file i need from it, and then discard the .zip file, > > and parse out the file i grabbed (this would prevent having a folder > > with R/W access that could possibly be set wrong, or using the /tmp > > folder) > > > > Again, I dont have any issues doing it where i save it first, but when I > > try to use the file from memory, i get errors saying that it can't open > > the zip file becuase it has no valid resource id#. > > > > The zip commands i am using, are the php ones zip_open, zip_read, > > zip_entry_read, zip_entry_name, zip_entry_filesize and obviously > > zip_close. > > > > Can this be done, or should I just forget it, and use the /tmp dir? > > > > Steve. > > > > > > > > > > Might see if this page will glean you any information > > http://us3.php.net/manual/en/wrappers.php.php > > I think the php://temp or php://memory will work for you instead of a file on > the file system. > > Jim > Jim: That is exactly what I was looking for... man, I feel dumb... I was looking at the tmpfile() and tmpname() but it wasn't quite what i was looking for. I've use the php://xxx before, but it slipped my mind. thanks again :) I will implement this tonight :) Steve