Many of the web servers file managers doesn’t provide a way to extract zip archives which is a huge pain. Normally I use Filezilla as ftp software and it doesn’t have any feature like this. Filezilla Downbloads each file individually, so if I download a folder with thousands of files, it takes too much time. But, If I compress the folder and download, it takes just a few minutes!
Thats why I did a search on google today and found a very useful script for uncompressing/extracting/unzipping files easily on web server. So, Here’s the script that’s called Unzipper
- This script is very easy to use, Just upload the unzipper.php to your server (specifically inside the folder where you have the zip file to extract). Now, go to your browser and open the location of unzipper.php file.
- You’ll see a select input box which contains a list of zipped files in the folder. You can select any file and click on unzip archive.
- It will start working right away and display success message upon completion.
- Thats all you need to do…
- After it completes extraction, you’ll see a new folder in the folder where you had the zip file with name of the zip file. That’s the extracted folder!
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Thanks, very helpful.
Work well!!!
Great to know that it helped you & Thanks for your comment 🙂
Thanks.
You’re Welcome 🙂
Many many thanks. It is working fine 02.12.2016
I don’t see an option to overwrite existing files? Is it possible witthis?
Thanks so much Abdul. You make the internet a better place.
Thank you a lot Bro you really save my day
thank you so much!! so helpful!
Excelent. Thanks
Superb. Thank you so much.
Whenever I use One.com hosting your tutorial save my life lol
That’s great! Thank you for your comment 🙂
thanks budy
i have problem my file.zip in on (/) folder, not in (public_html) so i can’t access unziper.php from web browser address..
How to acess unzipper.php in my case ?
maybe you need move unziper.php to your / folder. just moe on specific folder
thankyou. work well . zip CP cannot work. but this unzipper.php work very well to unzip.
I try to zip too and work!!. thanyou
THANK YOU.. MUCH APPRECIATE, SORRY BROKEN CAPS
Thousand thanks,
You saved me
Great work, thanks a lot !
I’m getting a 504 error though, any idea why ?
Excellent job!
You ‘re incredible. My highest gratitude for this amazing job brother.
Can the script start right away? Instead of confirming first.
to make a cronjob.
that’s was great, thanks abdul, salam
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Thanks! You are the best
Thank you for this solution. Really solved a problem for me moving a large site. Will share!
this script is amazing.
Thank you.
Brilliant! Solved a problem I had so quickly – after I had wasted over an hour looking for a solution.
thanks man
Well, you .php page is still saving lives in 2017!
This is amazing, thank so you much!
Awesome script! Thanks for sharing! I also checked out the “zip” script that you shared, love it! For anyone else who needs to zip files using Filezilla, see here: https://abdulawal.com/create-zip-file-with-content-of-current-directory-with-php-zipcf/
still works! 7/25/18
Thank you so much!
Great script! Thanks!
Thank you just testing now! 78000+ files to unzip hope it works
WORKED!! THANK YOU SAVED ME COUNTLESS TIME!!
Thanks it worked on one of my server. Other server says “Status: Error: Your PHP version does not support unzip functionality.” which version of PHP is needed for this script to work.
genius
It works trust me
Hey man. I don’t comment normally but love what you did. Thanks a lot, works flawlessly.
id marry you right now….hahah. Thanks a great deal
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I got permission error,
failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/unzipper.php on line 134
brother you saved my life, thanks!!
Thank you, comes in handy, checked the script before execution – works like a charm!
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Thank you, this saves my 2-3 hours of time
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It’s removed a lot of places because of the insecure matter of it.
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