name : tutorial_extract.php <?php require_once 'tutorial_autoload.php'; date_default_timezone_set( "UTC" ); // Open the gzipped TAR archive. $archive = ezcArchive::open( "compress.zlib:///tmp/my_archive.tar.gz" ); while( $archive->valid() ) { // Returns the current entry (ezcArchiveEntry). $entry = $archive->current(); // ezcArchiveEntry has an __toString() method. echo $entry, "\n"; // Extract the current archive entry to /tmp/target_location/ $archive->extractCurrent( "/tmp/target_location/" ); $archive->next(); } ?>