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ASP and Plesk - ActiveX unzip component

Hi All:

I'm trying to move my ASP-scripted website to a new host (GoDaddy) and their support has been less than stellar. I need to know how to access an ActiveX component that would allow a .zip to be unzipped on the server.

On my old host, the object is accessed as such:
Set objZip = Server.CreateObject("XStandard.Zip")

No one seems to know what the name of this component, if any, would be on Plesk. The also offer Window Shared Hosting, but they couldn't answer for that one either. I get a vague response suggesting that they don't cover coding and to use whatever the "default" object is on ASP in general.

I'm frankly about to try a different web host, so I suppose anyone's recommendation for good webhosting would be a good addendum to this question.

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Scott Fell

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RustyRazor

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I like your workaround and it seems reasonable.

I've been trying a standard script:

<?php
$zip = new ZipArchive;
if ($zip->open('test.zip') === TRUE) {
    $zip->extractTo('/my/unarchive/dir/');
    $zip->close();
    echo 'ok';
} else {
    echo 'failed';
}
?>

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It seems to be crashing on the extractTo line.

I also seem to be having trouble with pathing. for exmaple, if I specifiy /my/unarchive/dir/test.zip as the open file, the file is not found, so I had to copy the .zip file to the root directory to skip that error.

Any thoughts? Would there be any server-side settings I need to be aware of? Of course the subdiectory in question has read/write permissions.

Scott Fell

I really am not very versed in PHP. If you look down a little in that link you will see a note about using windows where you have to account for the back slash. See if this works.

Make attention when using this function with apache & windows system. Windows file system use \  (backslash) instead of unix / (slash) 
Use str_replace like this. 
<?php 
$zip = new ZipArchive; 
    if ($zip->open("file.zip")){ 
        $path = getcwd() . "/dirToextract/"; 
        $path = str_replace("\\","/",$path); 
        echo $path; 
        echo $zip->extractTo($path); 
        $zip->close(); 
        echo 'Done.'; 
    } else { 
        echo "Error"; 
    } 
?>

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RustyRazor

ASKER

padas:

I accept the PHP script idea as the solution and I'll close this question out, but the code segment is generating a syntax error on the extractTo statement. I'll open a new question. Thanks.

Scott Fell

Sounds good. Just make sure you start with the topic for PHP.

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28294099/PHP-unzip-on-IIS7-Windows-server.html