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zip_read() – Read the Next Entry in a ZIP Archive

The article explains PHP’s zip_read() function, detailing its purpose of reading the next entry in an opened ZIP archive, describing the required $zip resource parameter, and outlining the possible return values including the entry resource, FALSE when no more entries exist, or error codes.

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zip_read() – Read the Next Entry in a ZIP Archive

resource zip_read ( resource $zip )

This function reads the next entry from a ZIP archive that has been opened with zip_open() .

Parameter:

zip – A ZIP archive resource that must have been opened previously using zip_open() .

Return value:

On success, it returns a resource representing the current entry, which can be used by subsequent zip_entry_... functions. If there are no more entries, it returns FALSE . In case of an error, it returns the corresponding error code.

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