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  • Remove ifdef guards around ZIP_RDONLY, not needed since a979e9f
  • Add ZipArchive::openString().
  • For consistency with ::open(), return int|bool, don't throw an exception on error. Provide error information via existing properties and accessors.
  • Share buffer handling with ZipArchive::addFromString().
  • If there is an error from zip_close() during a call to ZipArchive::open(), emit a warning but proceed to open the archive, don't return early. Add test.
  • When buffers are saved by ZipArchive::addFromString(), release them in ZipArchive::close() and ::open(), don't accumulate buffers until the free_obj handler is called.
  • Factor out buffer handling and reuse it in ZipArchive::openString()

Co-authored-by: @shyim
Forked from #14078

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Just a heads-up: ext/zip doesn't currently have any active primary maintainers. I'm not sure who would be most qualified to review this. Maybe @devnexen or @ndossche? (Though note that @ndossche is a volunteer and busy with uni).

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Just a heads-up: ext/zip doesn't currently have any active primary maintainers. I'm not sure who would be most qualified to review this. Maybe @devnexen or @ndossche? (Though note that @ndossche is a volunteer and busy with uni).

@ndossche is definitely the most qualified and it would be great to have his review. My work here carries on from his ZipArchive::addFromString() commit in November.

Regarding this commit and future directions: the read-only restriction is somewhat arbitrary -- we could provide an interface allowing a zip archive to be modified in memory, although I'm not sure exactly what that would look like. Maybe there would be a getter for the modified string. Then openString() could take a $flags argument, like open(). If we want to do that, $flags should be introduced here, since ZipArchive::open() defaults to read/write mode, and it would make sense for openString to do that too.

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Since zip_close() does the writing, there's no point providing an accessor for the updated zip archive string before that is called. So maybe we could have ZipArchive::closeToString(), which closes the archive and returns it as a string.

We could then have a default for the first parameter of ZipArchive::openString to open an empty archive in read/write mode.

php_zipobj_add_buffer(ze_obj, buffer);
ze_obj->za = intern;
zip_error_fini(&err);
RETURN_TRUE;
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Why not just return 0? Having a return type of int|true is incredibly weird.

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For consistency with ZipArchive::open. #14078 proposed to throw exceptions instead, but @remicollet complained that it was inconsistent with ZipArchive::open, so here I am proposing to make it consistent. ZipArchive::open has a couple of error cases which can return false, but they don't apply here.

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If you're prepared to take responsibility for this PR and hit the merge button when it meets your requirements, I'll make it return whatever you want.

shyim and others added 4 commits February 16, 2026 12:54
Signed-off-by: Soner Sayakci <s.sayakci@shopware.com>
Fixes to php#14078:

* Rename ZipArchive::openBuffer() to ::openString().
* For consistency with ::open(), return int|bool, don't throw an
  exception on error. Provide error information via existing properties
  and accessors.
* Fix memory leak when ::openString() is called but ::close() is not
  called. Add test.
* Fix memory leak when a call to ::open() is followed by a call to
  ::openString(). Add test.
* Let libzip own the source, don't call zip_source_keep().
* Share buffer handling with ZipArchive::addFromString().

Elsewhere:

* If there is an error from zip_close() during a call to
  ZipArchive::open(), emit a warning but proceed to open the archive,
  don't return early. Add test.
* When buffers are saved by ZipArchive::addFromString(), release them
  in ZipArchive::close() and ::open(), don't accumulate buffers until
  the free_obj handler is called.
* Factor out buffer handling and reuse it in ZipArchive::openString()
@tstarling tstarling force-pushed the add-ziparchive-openbuffer branch from efbdd09 to 1d8a567 Compare February 16, 2026 01:56
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