Posted by Peter van Schie on 07/31/05 02:07

Richard Quick wrote:

> To speed things up I'd like to use a PHP script to
>
> - download the Typo3 software directly onto the server.
> - unzip the download directly onto the server.
>
> How can I do this?

Richard,

You should be a little more specific about your situation, i.e. what
platform are you on?

If you're on Linux or Unix, you could keep this pretty simple, using
simple exec() calls:

<?php
exec("wget <url where software is located> -O file.zip");
exec("unzip file.zip");

?>

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