<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >zip_entry_open</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Zip File Functions (Read Only Access)" HREF="ref.zip.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="zip_entry_name" HREF="function.zip-entry-name.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="zip_entry_read" HREF="function.zip-entry-read.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.zip-entry-name.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.zip-entry-read.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.zip-entry-open" ></A >zip_entry_open</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN98703" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 >= 4.1.0)</P >zip_entry_open -- Open a Directory Entry for Reading</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN98706" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >bool <B CLASS="methodname" >zip_entry_open</B > ( resource zip, resource zip_entry [, string mode])<BR ></BR ><P > Opens a directory entry in a zip file for reading. The parameter <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >zip</I ></TT > is a valid resource handle returned by <A HREF="function.zip-open.html" ><B CLASS="function" >zip_open()</B ></A >. The parameter <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >zip_entry</I ></TT > is a directory entry resource returned by <A HREF="function.zip-read.html" ><B CLASS="function" >zip_read()</B ></A >. The optional parameter <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >mode</I ></TT > can be any of the modes specified in the documentaion for <A HREF="function.fopen.html" ><B CLASS="function" >fopen()</B ></A >. </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > Currently, <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >mode</I ></TT > is ignored and is always <TT CLASS="literal" >"rb"</TT >. This is due to the fact that zip support in PHP is read only access. Please see <A HREF="function.fopen.html" ><B CLASS="function" >fopen()</B ></A > for an explanation of various modes, including <TT CLASS="literal" >"rb"</TT >. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><P > Returns <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >TRUE</B ></TT > on success or <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT > on failure. </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > Unlike <A HREF="function.fopen.html" ><B CLASS="function" >fopen()</B ></A > and other similar functions, the return value of <B CLASS="function" >zip_entry_open()</B > only indicates the result of the operation and is not needed for reading or closing the directory entry. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><P > See also <A HREF="function.zip-entry-read.html" ><B CLASS="function" >zip_entry_read()</B ></A > and <A HREF="function.zip-entry-close.html" ><B CLASS="function" >zip_entry_close()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.zip-entry-name.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.zip-entry-read.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >zip_entry_name</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.zip.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >zip_entry_read</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >