PHP read a text file from a directory of zip files

Question

I have a directory which contains a set of zipped files. each of these files has foo.txt file in it.

How can I read this text file from each zip?

I know glob is used to list all files from the directory

Answer 1

PHP has an extension that allows you to work with ZIP archives.

Note that to access that one file you don't need to unzip the whole archive. The ZipArchive::extractTo method allows you to specify what to extract.

$zip = new ZipArchive;
$res = $zip->open('test.zip');
$zip->extractTo('my/extract/folder/', 'foo.txt');