Question

I’m searching for a good solution to read a zip file from an url with php.

I checked the zip_open() function, but i never read anything about reading the file from another server.

Thank you very much

Answer 1

The best way to do that is to copy the remote file in a temporary one:

$file = 'http://remote/url/file.zip';
$newfile = 'tmp_file.zip';

if (!copy($file, $newfile)) {
    echo "failed to copy $file...\n";
}

Then, you can do whatever you want with the temporary file:

 $zip = new ZipArchive();
 if ($zip->open($newFile, ZIPARCHIVE::CREATE)!==TRUE) {
    exit("cannot open <$filename>\n");
 }