PHP ZIP files on the fly

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Unfortunately w/ PHP 5.3.4-dev and Zend Engine v2.3.0 on CentOS 5.x I couldn’t get the code above to work. An “Invalid or unitialized Zip object” error message was all I could get. So, in order to make it work, I had to use following snippet (taken from the example by Jonathan Baltazar on PHP.net manual, at the ZipArchive::open page):

// Prepare File
$file = tempnam("tmp", "zip");
$zip = new ZipArchive();
$zip->open($file, ZipArchive::OVERWRITE);

// Stuff with content
$zip->addFromString('file_name_within_archive.ext', $your_string_data);
$zip->addFile('file_on_server.ext', 'second_file_name_within_archive.ext');

// Close and send to users
$zip->close();
header('Content-Type: application/zip');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="file.zip"');
readfile($file);
unlink($file);

I know this is different than working w/ memory only – unless you have your tmp area in ram 😉 – but maybe this can help out someone else, who’s struggling with the solution above, like I was; and for which performance penalty is not an issue.

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