PHP provides the [`PharData`](http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.phardata.php) to extract an archive. Maybe there are other alternatives... Could be nice to just upload a light tarball file and just decompress it in a selected remote directory. I have also proposed the same feature on project [tinyfilemanager](/prasathmani/tinyfilemanager), see [issue #54](/prasathmani/tinyfilemanager/issues/54).