Simple utility to unzip an archive remotely on a webserver. When you have to deploy a lot of files to a webserver with no SSH access, upload all files in a zip, upload this script and unzip by calling `http://example.com/extract.php?name_of_archive`.

Simple PHP zip archive extractor

<?php
/**
 * Extracts a zip archive
 *
 * Simple utility to unzip an archive remotely on a webserver. When you have to deploy
 * a lot of files to a webserver with no SSH access, upload all files in a zip, upload
 * this script and unzip by calling `http://example.com/extract.php?name_of_archive`.
 *
 * @copyright   Copyright (c) 2013 Tomas Vitek
 * @author      Tomas Vitek ~ http://tomasvitek.com
 * @version     0.1
 */

$zip = new ZipArchive;
$file = urldecode($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);
$result = $zip->open($file . '.zip');

if ($result === TRUE) {
    if (@$zip->extractTo(__DIR__))
        echo '<h1>Done! 👍</h1>';
    else
        echo '<h1>Failed! 👎</h1><p>Check if PHP can write to the folder.</p>';
    $zip->close();
} else {
    echo '<h1>Failed! 👎</h1><p><strong>Fail code:</strong> ' . $result . '</p>';
}