TAR Archive stream-based reader

Reader for TAR and TAR+GZip Archives, optimized for read huge size archives, effective memory usage.

Features

• Read TAR archives from disk
• Support GZipped archives
• Iterate over Archive content
• Get name, size and type of each file
• Recognize Directory files type
• Recognize Regular files type
• Get content of files
• Scan file list only mode (doesn't read file's content from disk)

Install

composer require jakubboucek/tar-stream-reader

Usage

Read files from an archive:

foreach (ArchiveReader::read('example.tar') as $filename => $fileInfo) {
    echo "File {$filename} is {$fileInfo->getSize()} bytes size, content of file:\n";
    echo $fileInfo->getContent() . "\n\n";
}

Only scan files from an archive:

foreach (ArchiveReader::scan('example.tar') as $filename => $fileInfo) {
    echo "File {$filename} is {$fileInfo->getSize()} bytes size, content of file.\n";
}

Scan mode is skipping contents od files in Archive. It's faster and less memory consume than read mode.

Define type of archive:

foreach (ArchiveReader::scan('example.tar+gzip', ArchiveReader::TYPE_GZ) as $filename => $fileInfo) {
    echo "File {$filename} is {$fileInfo->getSize()} bytes size, content of file.\n";
}

Package recognize right type of Archive when using classic filename extension (.tar, .tgz, .tar.gz).

FAQ

Can I use Package for ZIP, RAR, BZ, … archives?

No, Package recognize only TAR Archive format, additionaly recognize GZipped Archive.

Can I use Package to create/modify Archive?

No, Package provide only read possibility.

Can I search file in Archive?

No, TAR Archive is stream-based format, it does not support search, you must always iterate over whole Archive.

How big file I can proceed?

Here are two scopes of this question: Archive size or Size of files in Archive

• Archive size is teoretically unlimited, beacuse package is using very effective
• Size of files in Archive is in read mode limited to available RAM because Content of each file is directly loaded to variable. For each file content is not abailable another read method.

Contributing

Please don't hesitate send Issue or Pull Request.

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email pan@jakubboucek.cz instead of using the issue tracker.

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.