Handling PHP compressed files

Question

I need to solve the following problem with PHP: the user will upload a zip file containing hundreds (possibly thousands) of files. I must unzip these files into a certain directory and after that I must iterate over the name (need the name!) of each unzipped file to perform a set of operations on that file. Does anyone know any PHP tools for dealing with this type of problem?

Answer 1

Extract files in PHP: http://php.net/manual/en/ziparchive.extractto.php

Getting content from a directory: http://php.net/manual/en/function.scandir.php

You can also use commands from your system if you prefer: http://php.net/manual/en/function.shell-exec.php