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Unzip Encrypted Text into a String Variable

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Demonstrates how to open an encrypted .zip archive and unzip a text file directly into a string variable.

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PHP ActiveX
<?php

$success = 0;

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

$zip = new COM("Chilkat.Zip");

// Set the password required for decrypting.
$zip->DecryptPassword = 'myPassword';

$success = $zip->OpenZip('encrypted.zip');
if ($success == 0) {
    print $zip->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Locate the file within the Zip to be unzipped into a string variable:
$entry = new COM("Chilkat.ZipEntry");
$success = $zip->EntryMatching('*.csv',$entry);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $zip->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// lineEndingBehavior:
// 0 = leave unchanged.
// 1 = convert all to bare LF's
// 2 = convert all to CRLF's
$lineEndingBehavior = 0;
$srcCharset = 'utf-8';

$strCsv = $entry->unzipToString($lineEndingBehavior,$srcCharset);
print $strCsv . "\n";

?>