How can you read the contents of a file within a .jar file without executing the .jar file in PHP?

To read the contents of a file within a .jar file without executing the .jar file in PHP, you can use the PHP ZipArchive class to extract the contents of the .jar file and then read the desired file within it. This allows you to access the contents of the .jar file without executing it. 

$jarFile = 'path/to/your.jar';
$zip = new ZipArchive;
if ($zip->open($jarFile) === TRUE) {
    $fileContents = $zip->getFromName('path/within/jar/file.txt');
    $zip->close();
    echo $fileContents;
} else {
    echo 'Failed to open the .jar file.';
}

Keywords

PHP file_get_contents ZipArchive jar file read file contents

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