PharData::offsetUnset

(PHP >= 5.3.0, PECL phar >= 2.0.0)

remove a file from a tar/zip archive

bool PharData::offsetUnset ( string $offset )

This is an implementation of the ArrayAccess interface allowing direct manipulation of the contents of a tar/zip archive using array access brackets. offsetUnset is used for deleting an existing file, and is called by the unset() language construct.

Parameters:

offset

The filename (relative path) to modify in the tar/zip archive.

Returns:

Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.

Exception:

Throws PharException if there are any problems flushing changes made to the tar/zip archive to disk.

Examples:

A PharData::offsetUnset() example

<?php
$p = new PharData('/path/to/my.zip');
try {
    // deletes file.txt from my.zip by calling offsetUnset
    unset($p['file.txt']);
} catch (Exception $e) {
    echo 'Could not delete file.txt: ', $e;
}
?>