How to extract or uncompress .tar.gz file using PHP?

Web Development
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Can anyone help me extract a .tar.gz file with PHP? I am using free web hosting, they don’t have an extract option in their control panel. They also don’t allow exec() commands.

I have a script in .tar.gz file around 80MB file size. I uploaded the file to the hosting server with FTP. After that, I need to extract it to run the script but found no way to do it.

Is any option available in PHP to extract .tar.gz?

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You can use PharData class to extract the tar archive. In 2 steps you can extract the file.

  1. You need to decompress the gz
  2. Then extract the tar
try {

    $file_path = "/path/to/myfile";

    // decompress
    $p = new PharData("{$file_path}.tar.gz");
    $p->decompress(); // creates /path/to/my.tar

    // extract
    $phar = new PharData("{$file_path}.tar");
    $phar->extractTo("/destination/path");

} catch (Exception $e) {
    // handle errors
}