Creating zip files with php

Really happy with that! Thanks, Mono. Jnanendra Veer. Hello David, This is a really nice snippet. Anything to do with the paths? Varun Bajaj. Trucker Her. Thanks, Sheetal. I hate PCs…. Kyle Clarke. I hope this helps out any if at all — took me a few hours to sort. Best Kyle. Thanks again!

Best regart Poul. Again, thank you in advance for the help and great script. I think you need to edit the code before giving it out! Adam Pery. Hi Thanks, for the code.. I want to delete a zip folder. Ben Tigano. Any clues on why is this happening? Could it be the library version?

Thanks, Neill. Whops, sorry, I made a mistake, instead of the double dots, put a single one inside the if. Very good!! The copy function does not works very well, copy the code but doing some changes inside the code. In linux server zip file will not create.. Doesnt help me much if you dont output some debug info. Uncomment them in the code. Sincerely, Serj. Rob Forkoff. Rizwan Ahasan Pathan. I am very glad to found this code.

Thanks a loooottt Rizwan. Ben Heller. Ian Dunn. Hey, Pamela. Have you tried to extract one file at a time? Something like this, might help you. You just maybe helped me from being throttled. Once again I end up finding the solution on davidwalsh. Hi All I am using this piece of code to create zip But now I want to slit the zip according to the size.

Hi, I am just wondering how do you if the files are located in a different host? Hi David, which is the best zip method based on compression size? Jeff Lange. Thanks for this great article!

It worked like a charm the first time I used it! Werner Ziegelwanger. Any ideas how i can fix this? David, Nice snippet! Shawn Rebelo. I prefer lean code, so I do the same thing in one line: exec "zip -r archive. Any thoughts??? Is your snippet can do that? Sorry for this stupid question… Alex. Continue this conversation via email Get only replies to your comment, the best of the rest, as well as a daily recap of all comments on this post. Use Code Editor. Unknown September 11, at AM.

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Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. You can define path as you want. Dhruvisha Dhruvisha 2, 1 1 gold badge 20 20 silver badges 31 31 bronze badges. Yes I have solved my problem. Richard 1, 18 18 silver badges 23 23 bronze badges. View Demo. The above-defined function createZip accepts the path of the directory as a parameter.

It will read all files and folders from the path and add them to the zip file. You can also use ZipArchive Class to unzip the Zip file.