Create a zip file with php

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Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. You can define path as you want. ZIP is an archive file format that supports lossless data compression. A ZIP file may contain one or more files or directories that may have been compressed. It might be need to install the class if it is not present.

Installation for Linux users: In order to use these functions you must compile PHP with zip support by using the —enable-zip configure option. Example: This example uses ZipArchive class and create a zipped file. Save the above code into two files with extension. One for zip and another for unzip the directory. Also give the appropriate path for the directory. Hi David, Can we make a functions for choose file name from table, move them in a location and then add all that in a archive file.

Hi Mr Lilhare, I have coded this, and maybe it can help you. First I display a list of songs picked form a database in a table, with checkboxes. When the user have finished picking his songs, He clicks on a button, and then magic happens. The script zip the files chose in a archive. In my case, when the zip is ready, I copy it into the user private directory, and I even add a PDF with the song list into the zip.

Your script is vulnerable to an SQL injection. Eric Strathmeyer: Good function by David, and i have similar situation so these lines help me as well. Wow mate! Thank you very much! Excactly what I was looking for! Now I need to find a way to backup a complete website in this zip. Then use it as a weekly cron. Any ideas? I used your code and it seemed to work file. It suggests that I unblock the file in the properties dialog, but no such option exists. So, is windows not capable of extracting the files or is it a corrupt zip file?

Anybody have experience with this? Work on Ubuntu archive mounter, but not in archive manager. I had the same error, and found it was filenames used inside the zipped folder were set to include the entire path. I modified the code to use just the file name:.

Hello Nitin, I have used ur code. I am not getting any error, but zip file is also not created. Anything else is needed. U r help is needed. It seems to be throwing errors when in cycles through each of the files. Is there anything I can add to my zip-archives at the point of creation which will stop them from getting blocked by SP2 filters?

But I digress. Kyle — thank you VERY much. This was driving me crazy and it turned out to be the leading dot-slash just like you said. I too was getting zip files of the appropriate size, but appeared empty when viewed and and I tried to extract, windows was telling me the file was invalid. After looking at the ZipArchive manual on php. So to solve this, I changed the code to :. How can i keep the original name?

I had the same problem extracting the generated zip on Windows because file path contained.. Failed To save is the echo i receive.

I tried a file that was in the same directory as well, but still not able to save the zip. I feel like I am missing one small part and once I have that, this will work. ZLib Support enabled Stream Wrapper support compress. Directive Local Value Master Value zlib.

Hi, David! I get??? Please, help me!! So Any help? Thanks a lot david. For example, on Unix-based systems this would look like:. Hello, Thanks for the code.. It helped me a lot.. Plz can u let me know how can we delete the zip folder? Hey, I was having problems with this generating folders within the archive. Here is my humble solution to the problem:. Awesome tutorial! And thanks to Phatnoir for the tip on making it a flat zip file without the directories! I made the following modification to the code in order to exclude them from the array.

If you dont give more information, nobody will help you. What is your problem? Did you try to print some debugging variables? This class makes file creation easier. Programmatically Zip creation is mainly required when preparing the group of files and folders for downloading. In the example, I am creating a function that will read all files and folders from the specified directory and add them to the ZipArchive class object. I have created includes folder within the project where I stored some files and folders.