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GZip Tar Extract (.tgz or .tar.gz)

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Demonstrates how to extract the contents of a GZip compressed Tar archive (.tgz or .tar.gz).

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<?php

include("chilkat.php");

$success = false;

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

$gzip = new CkGzip();

// Ungzip and untar.
$bNoAbsolute = true;

$untarToDirectory = '/temp/test';
// bNoAbsolute tells the component to convert all absolute paths
// found in the .tar to relative paths.   For example, if the .tar
// contains a file with an absolute path such as
// "/usr/bin/something.exe" it will
// be extracted to "/temp/test/usr/bin/something.exe"
$success = $gzip->UnTarGz('test.tar.gz',$untarToDirectory,$bNoAbsolute);
if ($success != true) {
    print $gzip->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}


?>