Phar::extractTo Extract the contents of a phar archive to a directory &reftitle.description; public boolPhar::extractTo stringdirectory arraystringnullfiles&null; booloverwrite&false; Extract all files within a phar archive to disk. Extracted files and directories preserve permissions as stored in the archive. The optional parameters allow optional control over which files are extracted, and whether existing files on disk can be overwritten. The second parameter files can be either the name of a file or directory to extract, or an array of names of files and directories to extract. By default, this method will not overwrite existing files, the third parameter can be set to true to enable overwriting of files. This method is similar to ZipArchive::extractTo. &reftitle.parameters; directory Path to extract the given files to files The name of a file or directory to extract, or an array of files/directories to extract, &null; to skip this param overwrite Set to &true; to enable overwriting existing files &reftitle.returnvalues; returns &true; on success, but it is better to check for thrown exception, and assume success if none is thrown. &reftitle.errors; Throws PharException if errors occur while flushing changes to disk. &reftitle.examples; extractTo('/full/path'); // extract all files $phar->extractTo('/another/path', 'file.txt'); // extract only file.txt $phar->extractTo('/this/path', array('file1.txt', 'file2.txt')); // extract 2 files only $phar->extractTo('/third/path', null, true); // extract all files, and overwrite } catch (Exception $e) { // handle errors } ?> ]]> &reftitle.notes; ¬e.extractto-windows; &reftitle.seealso; PharData::extractTo