How to create zip file after upload file using PHP

admin | Posted on May 10, 2021 |

Recently I had to write a script to create a zip file containing different files and folders. PHP has a ZipArchive class which can be used easily to create zip files. In this article we will see how to create zip file after upload file in PHP.

HTML Code

<html>
    <body>
        <form method="post" action="" enctype="multipart/form-data">
            <input type="file" name='file'>
            <input type="submit" name="upload_file">
        </form>
    </body>
</html>

PHP Code

<?php
if(isset($_POST['upload_file']))
{
    $uploadfile = $_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"];
    $folder = "images/";
    $file_name = $_FILES["file"]["name"];
    move_uploaded_file($_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"], "$folder" . $_FILES["file"]["name"]);

    $zip = new ZipArchive(); // Load zip library 
    $zip_name = "upload.zip"; // Zip name
    if ($zip->open($zip_name, ZIPARCHIVE::CREATE) !== TRUE) {
        echo "Sorry ZIP creation failed at this time";
    }
    $zip->addFile("images/" . $file_name);
    $zip->close();
}
?>

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