What alternative methods can be used to count and extract multiple ZIP files in PHP when the glob function does not provide accurate results?

When the glob function does not provide accurate results for counting and extracting multiple ZIP files in PHP, an alternative method is to use the RecursiveDirectoryIterator along with RecursiveIteratorIterator to iterate through directories and subdirectories to find ZIP files. Once the ZIP files are found, they can be counted and extracted using the ZipArchive class. 

// Find and extract ZIP files using RecursiveDirectoryIterator and ZipArchive
$directory = 'path/to/directory';
$iterator = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($directory));

$zipCount = 0;
$zip = new ZipArchive();

foreach ($iterator as $file) {
    if ($file->isFile() && pathinfo($file, PATHINFO_EXTENSION) === 'zip') {
        $zipCount++;
        if ($zip->open($file) === true) {
            $zip->extractTo($directory);
            $zip->close();
        }
    }
}

echo "Total ZIP files found: " . $zipCount;

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