GZip Tar Extract (.tgz or .tar.gz)

Demonstrates how to extract the contents of a GZip compressed Tar archive (.tgz or .tar.gz).

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<?php


$gzip = new COM("Chilkat.Gzip");

//  Any string unlocks the component for the 1st 30-days.
$success = $gzip->UnlockComponent('Anything for 30-day trial');
if ($success != true) {
    print $gzip->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  Ungzip and untar.
$bNoAbsolute = true;

$untarToDirectory = 'c:/temp/test';
//  bNoAbsolute tells the component to convert all absolute paths
//  found in the .tar to relative paths.   For example, if the .tar
//  contains a file with an absolute path such as
//  "c:/Windows/system32/something.exe" it will
//  be extracted to "c:/temp/test/Windows/system32/something.exe"
$success = $gzip->UnTarGz('test.tar.gz',$untarToDirectory,$bNoAbsolute);
if ($success != true) {
    print $gzip->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}


?>