Making a temporary dir for unpacking a zipfile into

Question

I have a script that checks a zipfile containing a number of matching PDF+textfiles. I want to unpack, or somehow read the textfiles from the zipfile, and just pick out some

Answer 1

quite easy (I took partly it from the PHP manual):

See: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.tempnam.php

Please look at Will's solution below.

=> My answer should not be the accepted answer anymore.