In PHP How to Inspect Content of a Zip File Without Extracting Its Content First

In PHP is it possible to inspect content of a Zip file without extracting its content first?

As found as a comment on http://www.php.net/ziparchive:

The following code can be used to get a list of all the file names in
a zip file.

<?php
$za = new ZipArchive(); 

$za->open('theZip.zip'); 

for( $i = 0; $i < $za->numFiles; $i++ ){ 
    $stat = $za->statIndex( $i ); 
    print_r( basename( $stat['name'] ) . PHP_EOL ); 
}
?>

PHP ZipArchive - Search Entry Contents for String

You can use ZipArchive::getFromName() or ZipArchive::getFromIndex() to read the zipped file contents.

$zip = new ZipArchive;
$res = $zip->open("./test.zip");
for( $i = 0; $i < $zip->numFiles; $i++ ){
    var_dump($zip->getFromIndex($i));
}
$zip->close();

PHP - read zip file contents without saving on server

I had the same problem and the best I could get was saving zip content to temp file and using ZipArchive to get content of zipped file:

public static function unzip($zipData) {
    // save content into temp file
    $tempFile = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), 'feed');
    file_put_contents($tempFile, $zipData);

    // unzip content of first file from archive
    $zip = new ZipArchive();
    $zip->open($tempFile);
    $data = $zip->getFromIndex(0);

    // cleanup temp file
    $zip->close();
    unlink($tempFile);

    return $data;
}

This is basically implementation of @mauris suggestion.

Opening PDF file in zip without extracting, using PHP

Use the zip:// wrapper:

You can use it with fopen/fread or just file_get_contents:

$pdf = file_get_contents('zip://datacollection.zip#data.pdf');
echo $pdf;

How to read a single file inside a zip archive

Try using the zip:// wrapper:

$handle = fopen('zip://test.zip#test.txt', 'r'); 
$result = '';
while (!feof($handle)) {
  $result .= fread($handle, 8192);
}
fclose($handle);
echo $result;

You can use file_get_contents too:

$result = file_get_contents('zip://test.zip#test.txt'); 
echo $result;

how i can open a file in zip file without extract it by the PHP

From the PHP manual: ZipArchive::getFromName(). This is exactly what you need.

<?php
$z = new ZipArchive();
if ($z->open(dirname(__FILE__) . '/test_im.zip')) {
    $string = $z->getFromName("mytext.txt");
    echo $string;
}
?>

Best wishes,

Fabian

Access files in zip before extracting them

$zip = new ZipArchive();
if ($zip->open($_FILES['upload_file']['tmp_name']) === true) {
    for ($i = 0; $i < $zip->numFiles; $i++) {
        $name=$zip->getNameIndex($i);
        $pieces=explode(DS,$name);
        if(substr($name, -1)==DS) {
            //validate directory structure if desired
        }
        else {
            //validate file
            $mime=$finfo->buffer($zip->getFromIndex($i));
        }
    }
}