Reading ZIP content file names as UTF-8 for saving into DB or something

readZipFiles.php

<?php
/**
 * Example for reading zip filenames as 
 * UTF-8 strings regardless of original 
 * filename encoding
 */

$Zip = new ZipArchive();

$open = $Zip->open($filename, ZIPARCHIVE::CHECKCONS);

if($open !== true)
{
    die('Invalid zip');
}

$length = $Zip->numFiles;

for($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++)
{
    $importName = $Zip->getNameIndex($i,ZipArchive::FL_UNCHANGED);
    
    $nameLen = mb_strlen($importName,'UTF-8');
    
    $lastChar = mb_substr($importName, $nameLen-1 ,1 ,'UTF-8');
    
    if( $lastChar == '/' || $lastChar == '\\')
    {
        // skip dirs
        // if you want to create directories
        // here is a good place for that
        continue;
    }
    
    // get file info
    $info = pathinfo($importName);
    
    // some encodings do funny things 
    // with filenames
    // we want to get UTF-8 filenames
    // so there are few that must be fixed
    $fixedName = $info['basename'];
    
    // if fixed name gets broken with this handling
    // file name encoding is likely CP850
    if($fixedName !== mb_convert_encoding(mb_convert_encoding($fixedName, "UTF-32", "UTF-8"), "UTF-8", "UTF-32"))
    {
        // convert from CP850 to UTF-8
        $fixedName = mb_convert_encoding($fixedName, 'UTF-8','CP850');
        
        // $fixedName should now be a valid UTF-8 string
    }
    
    // do what ever you are trying to do
  
}