Is there any way to extract a rar file on cpanel

Question

I have a website script, it 212MB and it's in RAR format , I could not upload it via filezilla ftp , it gave me a timeout error after sometime, I could not upload it from the filemanager of cpanel as it also kept showing an error. Then I used a php script to upload it directly from the link but now I can not extract it as its RAR not ZIP. I converted the RAR into ZIP and have it on drop box and google drive but there is no direct link which I can use to upload via the php script, SO, Is there any way to extract the rar file from cpanel or using a php script or some other tweak. I have been working on it for 2 hours now and can not find a way around.

Answer 1

create a php file and extra the .rar with that php file. use the following code

$archive = RarArchive::open('archive.rar');
$entries = $archive->getEntries();
foreach ($entries as $entry) {
    $entry->extract('/extract/to/this/path');
}
$archive->close();