cataphract/libarchive

PHP extension for reading and writing archives via libarchive

v0.2.0 2026-03-10 18:39 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.0

MIT

• Gustavo Lopes

Extension name: ext-archive

Supports Zend Thread Safety (ZTS): ✅

Supports non-Thread Safe mode (NTS): ✅

Supported operating systems: no restrictions

Configure flags:

• --with-libarchive=<value> Path to libarchive installation

README

PHP extension for reading archives (tar, zip, 7-zip, cpio, …) via libarchive. Supports all compression filters the installed libarchive recognises (gzip, bzip2, xz, zstd, …).

Requirements

• PHP 8.0+
• libarchive 3.x

Installation

pie install cataphract/libarchive

Usage

Extract an archive to disk

use libarchive\Archive;
use libarchive\EXTRACT_PERM;
use libarchive\EXTRACT_TIME;

$archive = new Archive('/path/to/archive.tar.gz', EXTRACT_PERM | EXTRACT_TIME);

chdir('/tmp/extract');

foreach ($archive as $entry) {
    echo $entry->pathname . "\n";
    $archive->extractCurrent($entry);
}

Read an entry as a stream

use libarchive\Archive;

$archive = new Archive('/path/to/archive.zip');

foreach ($archive as $entry) {
    if ($entry->pathname === 'data.json') {
        $stream = $archive->currentEntryStream();
        $contents = stream_get_contents($stream);
        fclose($stream);
        break;
    }
}

API

See libarchive.stub.php for the full class and constant documentation.

License

MIT