Build an archive from a stream

[Rudloff]

Hello,

I need to build tarballs from streams on my server (coming from HTTP requests or processes).
Do you think it would be possible to have a function that takes a stream as an argument instead of a filename, so I could do something like this:

$zip->add_stream(popen('echo foo'));

[mootari]

@Rudloff Here's what I did to wrap remote files. While written for Drupal, the code should be mostly reusable and self-explanatory: https://gist.github.com/mootari/463a0e5ec31f7db314c323ac47d26d3a

Hope it helps. :)

Edit: I doubt you'll be able to do this if you don't know the stream size in advance, though. In that case you should propbably revert to compression formats that have better support for this, like gzip.

[Rudloff]

Thanks @mootari. I also ended up extending TarArchive in order to fill my specific needs: https://github.com/Rudloff/alltube/blob/develop/classes/PlaylistArchiveStream.php