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Extract your .zip files on Apache with PHP

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  • Last edited: September 27, 2012

You are managing a webserver and you only have FTP access, and you need to extract a large .zip file (for example WordPress, Joomla, plugins, etc) which would take forever to upload as an extracted folder. Can’t convince your domain manager to give you SSH access? You don’t need it with this nifty script I have discovered (and modified to make it nice and user-friendly).

To use it, just upload extract.php into your folder beside the .zip file in question, navigate to the php file (ie. http://yourdomain.co.nz/extract.php) and tick the options you want. Kaboom!

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