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UnifiedArchive - unified interface to all popular archive formats (zip # 7z # rar # gz # bz2 # xz # cab # tar # tar.gz # tar.bz2 # tar.x # tar.Z # iso-9660) for listing, reading, extracting and creation + built-in console archive manager.

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Preamble

If on your site/service there is a possibility of usage archives of many types, and you would like to work with them unified, you can use this library.

Functions

Opening an archive with automatic format detection
Getting information about uncompressed size of archive contents
Listing archive content
Getting details ([un]compressed size, date of modification) of every archived file
Extracting archived file content as is or on a disk
Reading archived file content as stream
Adding files to archive
Removing files from archive
Creating new archives with files/directories

Formats support

Formats	Driver	getFileContent() / getFileResource()	addFiles() / removeFiles()	archiveFiles()	Notes
.zip	extension: `zip`	✔	✔	✔
.7zip, .7z	package: `gemorroj/archive7z` AND `7zip-cli`	✔ / ✔ [1]	✔	✔	Uses system binary `7z` to work
.tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar.xz, .tar.Z, .tgz, .tbz2, .txz	package: `pear/archive_tar`	✔ / ✔ [1]	❌	✔	Compressed versions of tar are supported by appropriate libraries or extenions (zlib, bzip2, xz) or installed software (ncompress)
.tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tgz, .tbz2	extension: `phar`	✔ / ✔ [1]	✔	✔	Compressed versions of tar are supported by appropriate libraries or extenions (zlib, bzip2)
.rar	extension: `rar`	✔	❌	❌
.iso	package: `phpclasses/php-iso-file`	✔ / ✔ [1]	❌	❌
.cab	package: `wapmorgan/cab-archive`	✔[2] / ✔ [1][2]	❌	❌	Extraction is supported only on PHP 7.0.22+, 7.1.8+, 7.2.0.
.gz	extension: `zlib`	✔		✔
.bz2	extension: `bzip2`	✔		✔
.xz	extension: `lzma2`	✔		✔

[1] Simulation mode
[2] Extraction ability depends on PHP version

Installation

Composer package: wapmorgan/unified-archive [1]

Add these lines to composer.json

{
    "require": {
        "wapmorgan/unified-archive": "~0.2.0"
    }
}

Or run composer require wapmorgan/unified-archive from your main package root folder.

Usage

Complex usage example of UnifiedArchive of described in Usage section.

API

Full API of UnifiedArchive is described in API document.

Changelog

To see all changes in library go to CHANGELOG file.

Built-in console archive manager

UnifiedArchive is distributed with a unified console program to manipulate popular archive formats. This script is stored in vendor/bin/cam.

It supports all formats that UnifiedArchive does and can be used to manipulate archives without other software. To check your configuration and check formats support launch it with -f flag in console:

$ php vendor/bin/cam -f

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