Simple PHP class to get shapefile rows using ogr

wktFromZip.php

<?php

/**
 * Could also look at parsing shapefiles manually: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile#Shapefile_shape_format_.28.shp.29
 */
class wktFromZip {

  function __construct($fid) {
    // Extract zip file to tmp.
    $file = file_load($fid);
    $extracted_path = drupal_realpath('public://tmp/' . basename($file->filename, '.zip'));
    $zip = new ArchiverZip(drupal_realpath($file->uri));
    $zip_contents = $zip->listContents();
    $zip->extract($extracted_path);

    // Look for shapefiles.
    $shapefiles = file_scan_directory($extracted_path, '/^.*\.(shp)$/');
    foreach ($shapefiles as $shapefile) {
      $ogr2ogr = '/Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/Versions/1.8/Programs/ogr2ogr'; // vget().
      $command = $ogr2ogr . ' -f CSV /vsistdout/ ' . $shapefile->uri . ' -lco GEOMETRY=AS_WKT';
      // Can also seek to arbitrary features quite easily, for example: ogr2ogr -f CSV /vsistdout/ vector.shp  -lco GEOMETRY=AS_WKT -where 'fid in (1,2,3,4,5)'
      // Grab CSV representation of the SHP and do something with it. Maybe better to do GeoJSON?
      if (($handle = popen($command, "r")) !== FALSE) {
        $header = array();
        while (($data = fgetcsv($handle)) !== FALSE) {
          // Hold onto the header so we can do field mapping.
          if (empty($header)) {
            $header = $data;
          }
          else {
            $record = array_combine($header, $data);
            //print $record['Label'];
            // Do stuff, like push data into a node with a Geofield.
          }
        }
        pclose($handle);
      }
      else {
        throw new Exception('ogr2ogr could not execute');
      }
    }
    file_unmanaged_delete_recursive($extracted_path);
  }

}