Zip file processing without recompiling PHP

[Andy]

I am trying to create an OsCommerce plugin that parses a number of
files and adds them to the catalog.
I need some method of transferring the files to be parsed to the
server with OsC.
Ideally, I would like to send these as a zip file, but in order to
keep the installation requirements and user knowledge requirements to
a minimum I would prefer not to have the client recompile PHP with zip
support.
Does anyone know of a module that will parse zip files without any
prerequisites?
I have searched google and usenet and not found anything useful.
Everything seems to point to the Zip module which requires ZZiplib and
recompilation of the PHP interpreter.
Also, is there any function that can be used to create a temp
directory with a unique name (equivalent of tempnam)? I would imagine
that there are security concerns involved in creating a tempnam file,
unlinking it and recreating a directory with the filename returned,
although this would be preferred to some other method of creating a
directory.

Many thanks in advance for your assistance.

Best Regards
Andy

[Chung Leong]

Check out this article:
http://www.zend.com/zend/spotlight/c...zip-files1.php. Although it's
about creating ZIP files dynamically, the information is useful for writing
code that performs the reverse process.

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I am trying to create an OsCommerce plugin that parses a number of
files and adds them to the catalog.
I need some method of transferring the files to be parsed to the
server with OsC.
Ideally, I would like to send these as a zip file, but in order to
keep the installation requirements and user knowledge requirements to
a minimum I would prefer not to have the client recompile PHP with zip
support.
Does anyone know of a module that will parse zip files without any
prerequisites?
I have searched google and usenet and not found anything useful.
Everything seems to point to the Zip module which requires ZZiplib and
recompilation of the PHP interpreter.
Also, is there any function that can be used to create a temp
directory with a unique name (equivalent of tempnam)? I would imagine
that there are security concerns involved in creating a tempnam file,
unlinking it and recreating a directory with the filename returned,
although this would be preferred to some other method of creating a
directory.

Many thanks in advance for your assistance.

Best Regards
Andy