Codeigniter and uploading zip files

Question

I am currently building a backend to a site using the codeigniter framework, I have hit a bit of a problem, I needing a way to allow the user to upload a zipped folder of images, on completing the form, zipped folder must be unzipped, and the files need to be moved to a folder else where on the server, have thumbnail version of each image created and have there file name add to the DB, and also if the images are for a content type that does not already exist then I need to make a directory with that content type.

I know there is an upload class in Codeigniter, but I am not sure that, that has the capabilities do what I need, I could really do with some advice please?

Thanks

Answer 1

As Jan pointed out, this is a broad question (like 3 or 4 questions). I'm not up to date with the CodeIgniter framework but to Unzip the files you can do something like this:

function Unzip($source, $destination)
{
    if (extension_loaded('zip') === true)
    {
        if (file_exists($source) === true)
        {
            $zip = new ZipArchive();

            if ($zip->open($source) === true)
            {
                $zip->extractTo($destination);
            }

            return $zip->close();
        }
    }

    return false;
}

Unzip('/path/to/uploaded.zip', '/path/to/extract/');