Question

I would like to extract a zip folder to a location and to replace all files and folders except a few, how can I do this?

I currently do the following.

$backup = realpath('./backup/backup.zip');

$zip = new ZipArchive();

if ($zip->open("$backup", ZIPARCHIVE::OVERWRITE) !== TRUE) {

    die ('Could not open archive');

}

$zip->extractTo('minus/');

$zip->close();

How can I put conditions in for what files and folders should NOT be replaced? It would be great if some sort of loop could be used.

Thanks all for any help

Answer 1

You could do something like this, I tested it and it works for me:

// make a list of all the files in the archive
$entries = array();
for ($idx = 0; $idx < $zip->numFiles; $idx++) {
    $entries[] = $zip->getNameIndex($idx);
}

// remove $entries for the files you don't want to overwrite

// only extract the remaining $entries
$zip->extractTo('minus/', $entries);

This solution is based on the numFiles property and the getNameIndex method, and it works even when the archive is structured into subfolders (the entries will look like /folder/subfolder/file.ext).
Also, the extractTo method takes a second optional paramer that holds the list of files to be extracted.