Not too sure what you’re referring to in your comment. What weird coding?

mary

Appears you didn’t import/export with the write character set.

Why your getting all the weird coding….

Thanks for your comment and for the link. I’ll check it out. I recently used the PHP code above to extract a CMS after uploading the zip file to my hosting account. I didn’t notice any ownership issues. But I’ll ask Bo over at the Web Development Forums about it.

Another thing I generally do is to use the cPanel file manager extracting utility to unpack the archive, and that generally works well too.

thanks again george.

mary

The problem I’ve run into is that the unzipped files aren’t considered to be owned by me, so I can’t move, delete, CHMOD, or rename them - kind of a problem.

The solution I’ve found is to use PCL Zip (http://www.phpconcept.net/pclzip/index.en.php), which allows you to CHMOD at the time of unzip, solving the problem.

Of course, your script is a lot smaller than PclZip’s 300K, so if it works - cheers!

Thanks for your comment. I see what you mean about the title though, it may have been a tad ambitious. The files are transferred in a zipped form via FTP and the unzipped using PHP on the server, reducing the time required to upload individual files, so the use of PHP is indirect here.

Thanks for your feedback.

Still, an interesting and unique solution. Thanks for the info.