name : tutorial_read_only.php <?php require_once 'tutorial_autoload.php'; $options = new ezcArchiveOptions( array( 'readOnly' => true ) ); $archive = ezcArchive::open( "compress.zlib:///tmp/my_archive.tar.gz", null, $options ); // The foreach method calls internally the iterator methods. foreach( $archive as $entry ) { echo $entry, "\n"; $archive->extractCurrent( "/tmp/target_location/" ); } ?>