How To Create Zip File Using Ziparchive in Laravel
In this tutorial I will show you how to create zip file using ziparchive in laravel 6, laravel 7, laravel 8. Some times client's have requirments to have functionalities like create zip file for documantation or images and download it. So, at that time we can find many laravel packeges to perform this task but here, I am show you to how to create zip file in laravel using ziparchive without any packege.
Laravel provide ZipArchive class for create zip file in laravel. So, I will use ZipArchive in laravel 6, laravel 7 and laravel 8. In laravel you can create zip file and download it. So, for this example we are not use any zip file package for create zip file in laravel 6/7/8.
So, let's see example of how to create zip file using ziparchive in laravel 6, laravel 7 and laravel 8.
In below code I have created one function in laravel controller and added ZipArchive class.
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use ZipArchive;
public function ZipArchiveExample()
{
$zip = new ZipArchive;
$fileName = 'Zipfile_Example.zip';
if ($zip->open(public_path($fileName), ZipArchive::CREATE) === TRUE)
{
$files = \File::files(public_path('Zipfile_Example'));
foreach ($files as $key => $value) {
$file = basename($value);
$zip->addFile($value, $file);
}
$zip->close();
}
return response()->download(public_path($fileName));
}
You might also like :
- Read Also : Basic Github And Git Commands
- Read Also : How To Increase Session Lifetime In Laravel
- Read Also : How To Create Custom Middleware In Laravel
- Read Also : How To Validate Max File Size Using Javascript
