PHP zip_entry_open() Function

Definition and Usage

The zip_entry_open() function opens a ZIP archive item for reading.

Syntax

zip_entry_open(zip,zip_entry,mode)
Parameters Description
zip Required. Specifies the zip resource to be read (the zip file opened by zip_open()).
zip_entry Required. Specifies the zip archive resource to be opened (the zip archive item opened by zip_read()).
mode Optional. Specifies the access type of the zip archive item.

Description

In PHP 5, mode is ignored and is always "rb". This is because PHP's zip support is read-only.

Examples

<?php
$zip = zip_open("test.zip");
if ($zip)
  {
  while ($zip_entry = zip_read($zip))
    {
    echo "<p>";
    echo "Name: " . zip_entry_name($zip_entry) . "<br />";
    if (zip_entry_open($zip, $zip_entry))
      {
      // some code
      }
    echo "</p>";
  }
zip_close($zip);
}
?>