Classic ASP

Unzip a .zip Archive

Demonstrates how to open a .zip archive and unzip. The Unzip method extracts the files and directories from a .zip archive and recreates the directory tree rooted at the directory path passed to Unzip.

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<html>
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
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<body>
<%
success = 0

' This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

set zip = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Zip")

success = zip.OpenZip("my_files.zip")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( zip.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' Returns the number of files and directories unzipped.
' Unzips to /my_files, re-creating the directory tree
' from the .zip.
unzipCount = zip.Unzip("/my_files")
If (unzipCount < 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( zip.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
Else
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Success!") & "</pre>"
End If


%>
</body>
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