What is the easiest way of creating dynamically zip files with php?
For example,
I have these files on the server,
Root -> Folder 1 -> file1.wav
Root -> Folder 2 -> file2.jpg
I want to create a zip file contains these 2 files and allow user to download it.
any help ?
Thx in advance
See the ZipArchive class; it has what you need.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.ziparchive.php
Example from PHP.Net:
<?php
$zip = new ZipArchive;
if ($zip->open('test.zip') === TRUE) {
$zip->addFile('/path/to/index.txt', 'newname.txt');
$zip->close();
echo 'ok';
} else {
echo 'failed';
}
?>
After zipping it, you can output a mime-type header and output the file:
header('Content-type: application/zip');
readfile('test.zip');
this is the working example of making zip in php
$zip = new ZipArchive();
$zip_name = time().".zip"; // Zip name
$zip->open($zip_name, ZipArchive::CREATE);
foreach ($files as $file) {
echo $path = "uploadpdf/".$file;
if(file_exists($path)){
$zip->addFromString(basename($path), file_get_contents($path));
}
else{
echo"file does not exist";
}
}
$zip->close();
