Creating and Extracting zip files using PHP

Hi ,

Ever thought of writing your own php code for compressing and extracting your files

??

Then your in the right place , by following this post  you can  zip and unzip your files using a PHP code 

. You can also perform other operations like renaming the  files to be zipped  , getting the index of the file to be zipped , extracting the zipped files to the folder you wish , getting the number of files zipped and the name of the files being zipped etc :-)

Excited ? well here it goes !!!!!!!!!!

Create and Extract zip files using your own PHP program

<?php

$zip = new ZipArchive(); /*creating a variable of the zipArchive class*/ 

$filename = "./wetechies.zip"; /*name of the zip folder you want to create*/

Compress your files using PHP

/***************Creates the zip folder if it doesn't exists , else it overwrites ***************/

if ($zip->open($filename, ZipArchive::CREATE)!==TRUE) {

    exit("cannot open <$filename>\n");

}

/****************** Lets add 2 files into the zip for demonstration********************/ 

$zip->addFromString("wetechies1.txt" . time(), "#1 welcome to wetechies blog.\n");

$zip->addFromString("wetechies2.txt" . time(), "#2 enjoy reading the blog.\n");

/***********************Just to print some archive details*****************************/

$zip = new ZipArchive();

$zip->open('wetechies.zip');
print_r($zip);
var_dump($zip);
echo "Number of files : " . $zip->numFiles . "\n";
echo "Execution status : " . $zip->status  . "\n";
echo "statusSys : " . $zip->statusSys . "\n";
echo "filename : " . $zip->filename . "\n";
echo "comment : " . $zip->comment . "\n";

for ($i=0; $i<$zip->numFiles;$i++) {
    echo "index : $i\n";
    print_r($zip->statIndex($i));
}

/**************************To print some more additional information**************/

$zip = zip_open("wetechies.zip");

if ($zip) {
    while ($zip_entry = zip_read($zip)) {
        echo "Name of the zip file :               " . zip_entry_name($zip_entry) . "\n";
        echo "Actual Filesize :    " . zip_entry_filesize($zip_entry) . "\n";
        echo "Compressed Size :    " . zip_entry_compressedsize($zip_entry) . "\n";
        echo "Compression Method used : " . zip_entry_compressionmethod($zip_entry) . "\n";

        if (zip_entry_open($zip, $zip_entry, "r")) {
            echo "The File Contents  are :\n";
            $buffer = zip_entry_read($zip_entry, zip_entry_filesize($zip_entry));
            echo "$buffer\n";

            zip_entry_close($zip_entry);
        }
        echo "\n";

    }

    zip_close($zip);

}

Extract your files to the folder you wish using PHP

/***************Renaming and extracting the file to  the folder you wish******************/

echo  $zip->locateName('send.php') . "\n";

 $zip->renameIndex(1,'newwetechies.txt');

$zip->extractTo("wetechiesextracted");

$zip->close();

?>

/****************************************************************************************************/

Thats it !!!!


You can download the source code from here

 Any doubts? or suggestion please feel free to comment :-)