# ZipArchive::getStream

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ZipArchive::getStream — Get a file handler to the entry defined by its name (read only).

### Description

resource ZipArchive::getStream ( string `$name` )

Get a file handler to the entry defined by its name. For now it only supports read operations.

### Parameters

`name`

  The name of the entry to use.

### Return Values

Returns a file pointer (resource) on success or `FALSE` on failure.

### Examples

Example#1 Get the entry contents with fread and store it.

`<?php
$content = '';
$z = new ZipArchive();
if ($z->open('test.zip')) {
$fp = $z->getStream('test');
if(!$fp) exit("failed\n");
while (!feof($fp)) {
$contents .= fread($fp, 2);
}
fclose($fp);
file_put_contents('t',$contents);
echo "done.\n";
}
?>`

Example#2 Same as the previous example but with fopen and the zip stream wrapper

`<?php
$fp = fopen('zip://' . dirname(__FILE__) . '/test.zip#test', 'r');
if (!$fp) {
exit("cannot open\n");
}
while (!feof($fp)) {
$contents .= fread($fp, 2);
echo "$contents\n";
}
fclose($fp);
echo "done.\n";
?>`

Example#3 Stream wrapper and image, can be used with the xml function as well

`<?php
$im = imagecreatefromgif('zip://' . dirname(__FILE__) . '/test_im.zip#pear_item.gif');
imagepng($im, 'a.png');
?>`