In this article, we will see how to create a zip file using zipArchive in laravel. Sometimes we have requirements to have functionalities like creating zip files for documentation or images and downloading them. So, at that time we can find many laravel packages to perform this task. But here, we will see how to create a zip file in laravel using zipArchive without any package.
Laravel provides ZipArchive class for creating zip files in laravel. So, we will use ZipArchive in laravel 6 and laravel 7, and laravel 8.
In the below code, I have created one function in the laravel controller and added ZipArchive class.
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use ZipArchive;
public function ZipArchiveExample()
{
$zip = new ZipArchive;
$fileName = 'Example.zip';
if ($zip->open(public_path($fileName), ZipArchive::CREATE) === TRUE)
{
$files = \File::files(public_path('Zip_Example'));
foreach ($files as $key => $value) {
$file = basename($value);
$zip->addFile($value, $file);
}
$zip->close();
}
return response()->download(public_path($fileName));
}
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