You don’t need to require any other extra plugin for working with Zip files. // Get Project path define('_PATH', dirname(__FILE__)); // Zip file name $filename = 'zipfile.zip'; $zip = new ZipArchive; $res = $zip->open($filename); if ($res === TRUE) { // Unzip path $path = _PATH."/files/"; // Extract file $zip->extractTo($path); $zip->close(); echo 'Unzip!'; } else { echo 'failed!'; }