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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Run drupal_realpath on that and it will
      be fine:<br>
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      $file=drupal_realpath('public://archive.zip');<br>
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      <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Jamie Holly
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      On 1/27/2014 10:15 PM, Swatee Karpe wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">$file = public://archive.zip. like this.<br>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Jamie
          Holly <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:hovercrafter@earthlink.net" target="_blank">hovercrafter@earthlink.net</a>&gt;</span>
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              <div>What are you using to set the $file variable? It
                needs to be a path to the local file system. What you
                got is a URL. You want something more along the lines of
                /sites/<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="http://samplesite.com/files/testjan.zip"
                  target="_blank">samplesite.com/files/testjan.zip</a><span
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                    <pre cols="72">Jamie Holly
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                  <div class="h5"> On 1/27/2014 9:54 PM, Swatee Karpe
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                    <div dir="ltr">Thanks for replying Jamie.
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                      <div>I tried to use&nbsp;$archiver =
                        archiver_get_archiver($file);</div>
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                      <div>It shows&nbsp;<em>Exception</em>: Archivers can
                        only operate on local files: &lt;em
                        class="placeholder"&gt;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://samplesite.com/sites/samplesite.com/files/testjan.zip"
                          target="_blank">http://samplesite.com/sites/samplesite.com/files/testjan.zip</a>&lt;/em&gt;


                        not supported in <em>archiver_get_archiver()</em>
                        (line <em>8091</em> of <em>/sites/drupal7/includes/common.inc</em>).</div>
                      <div>Error to me.</div>
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                      <div>Any solution on this?</div>
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                      <div>do u have sample code for this?<br>
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                      <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at
                        10:02 PM, Jamie Holly <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a
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                            href="mailto:hovercrafter@earthlink.net"
                            target="_blank">hovercrafter@earthlink.net</a>&gt;</span>
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                            <div>If you're using Drupal 7, it would be
                              better to use the built in archiver class.
                              It's used in
                              update_manager_archive_extract in
                              modules/update/update.manager.inc:<br>
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                                <div> On 1/27/2014 2:20 AM, Swatee Karpe
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                                  <div dir="ltr">Hi all,
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                                    <div>I am using drupal 7 and I want
                                      extract the zip file and save the
                                      extracted folder into files
                                      directory. I am taking zip file
                                      from one of my content type.</div>
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                                    <div>For this I am trying to use
                                      ZipArchive class.&nbsp;</div>
                                    <pre><span style="font-family:arial">&nbsp;$zip = new ZipArchive;</span>
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                                      <div>&nbsp;$unzip =
                                        $zip-&gt;open($filename);</div>
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                                        <pre>ZipArchive Object
(
    [status] =&gt; 0
    [statusSys] =&gt; 0
    [numFiles] =&gt; 0
    [filename] =&gt; 
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                                      <div>After printing $zip i get the
                                        empty array as above.<br>
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                                      <div>Do any one know why this is
                                        not working in my case?</div>
                                      <div>Or any one know other way to
                                        extract file and save it to
                                        folder.</div>
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                                      <div>Thanks in advance.</div>
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                                      <div dir="ltr">Swatee Amit Karpe<br>
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                      <div dir="ltr">Thanks &amp; Regards,<br>
                        Swatee Amit Karpe<br>
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