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Problem:

I can’t upload rars to wordpress.

Solution:

Edit wp-includes/functions.php,

search for:

'exe' => 'application/x-msdownload'

add a line after it:

'rar' => 'application/x-rar-compressed',

Done!

You may want to add other filetypes you also enjoy here.

Source:

Chis Meller

Problem:

php has no support to rar on fedora, there’s no yum pack for easy install.

Solution:

packs you will need:

php-devel gcc-c++

one line install: (version might differ!)

wget http://pecl.php.net/get/rar;mv rar rar.tgz;tar -xzvf rar.tgz;cd rar-1.0.0;phpize;./configure && make && make install;

don’t forget to add:

extension=rar.so

on your php.ini

Problem:

After downloading massive stuff on the internet you need to do the boring process of extracting then deleting the compressed files from multiple folders etc etc

Solution:

A php script that extract all rar/zip files into all subfolders from the root folder you specify.

Source Here

How to use:

on prompt:

php x.php /path/to/folder

if you are on windows it’s recommended that you put x.php on a folder before the ones you want to process, or at least into the same drive letter.

Note: Must have php_zip and php_rar libraries enabled on your php.ini

Note2: Apparetly there’s a bug on the php_rar library, even if i close the handler or even unset the object, the last file of a rar archive keeps being used, meaning that script can’t delete it, so you need to do it manually (you will need to wait the script finish uncompressing of all the subfolders before deleting).