Call for help: cross platform unzip/untar/uncompress

The new Rich Text editors are comprised of MANY files. As such, uploading takes a lot longer than I’d like to see it take.

Does anyone have know of or have a cross-platform code based that we could use in an installer to uncompress files and recreate directory trees. Other suggestions?

Thanks.

I thought PHP had some zip/compress functions.
Isn’t that how the unzipping in the MODx filemanager works?

Maybe this would be useful?

Thanks Susan. In my brief review of the code and the associated notes at php.net of some of the bzipcreate, zip_create, etc. functions at php.net, it seems like there are no external file dependencies. That’s great! The only gotcha is that handling some of the file types requires PHP 4.3 and above (which should almost be a requirement at this point I think).

Well...we could probably find some way of integrating some zip/tar features into the file manager. Honestly, it’s probably a longshot to try and integrate something like this into the editors themselves. Unless the devs for FCKeditor, TinyMCE, and Xinha are working on something like this, I think it’s probably alot safer to do it with the file manager. Better to keep something like this in one spot rather than isolated to a particular editor. Just a thought. I haven’t looked hard at the code for the file manager...but I’m sure it could be done without too much fuss. I’ve seen this sort of functionality before with a few PHP apps so...it’s definitely possible.

My thoughts on this is for an installer application, so you’re not transferring thousands of files across the net.

Ah...well...that changes things. Heh heh...silly me, didn’t read the first message right. Yeah, that’s definitely a possibility. Of course we’ll likely have to rely a bit on certain modules being present in the PHP configuration...probably the zip and zlib modules I’m guessing. It could probably be done with just the Install directory and an archive file being present. As long as the user has uploaded the files on their server and made sure that the directory they are in have write permissions, I don’t see how this couldn’t be possible. I’ll have a gander at some scripts that can do this sort of thing. I like the idea!

Jeff

Quote from: rthrash at Jun 22, 2005, 02:21 PM

My thoughts on this is for an installer application, so you’re not transferring thousands of files across the net.

I was wondering how Xoops managed to do it, for e.g. modules, etc. as they allow zip files.

Can’t you use .bin files?

They’re a bit bulky but contain the actual bin file and when you "unzip" the bin it puts all the files in the right places.

Only problem I’ve seen on this in perl was that the server now owned the file and made it a problem to erase the buggers later.

Zip files are probably the way to go. Both Xoops and Mambo use zip files to install modules, plugins and the like. We could probably integrate this concept into the installer. Plus, perhaps we could integrate the installation of plugins in a similar fashion. You never know...possibilities are endless when it comes to functionality like this.