extract .rar files to a specific directory in php

Question

I want to extract .rar file not .zip file using php I followed this example in php manual

php manual

the problem in this tutorial is not extract the files to directory, it prints the content of the file to browser.

Answer 1

You should be able to extract the files from the archive with the RarEntry::extract method.

So something like:

$archive = RarArchive::open('archive.rar');
$entries = $archive->getEntries();
foreach ($entries as $entry) {
    $entry->extract('/extract/to/this/path');
}
$archive->close();