How to zip a whole folder using PHP

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I have found here at edureka some codes on how to ZIP a specific file, but how about a specific folder?

Folder/
  index.html
  picture.jpg
  important.txt

inside in My Folder, there are files. after zipping the My Folder, i also want to delete the whole content of the folder except important.txt.

How can I do that?

Aug 24, 2020 in PHP by kartik
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Hello @kartik,

You can Zip a whole folder using the code below:

// Get real path for our folder
$rootPath = realpath('folder-to-zip');

// Initialize archive object
$zip = new ZipArchive();
$zip->open('file.zip', ZipArchive::CREATE | ZipArchive::OVERWRITE);

// Create recursive directory iterator
/** @var SplFileInfo[] $files */
$files = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(
    new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($rootPath),
    RecursiveIteratorIterator::LEAVES_ONLY
);

foreach ($files as $name => $file)
{
    // Skip directories (they would be added automatically)
    if (!$file->isDir())
    {
        // Get real and relative path for current file
        $filePath = $file->getRealPath();
        $relativePath = substr($filePath, strlen($rootPath) + 1);

        // Add current file to archive
        $zip->addFile($filePath, $relativePath);
    }
}

// Zip archive will be created only after closing object
$zip->close();

Hope it helps!!
Thank You!!

answered Aug 24, 2020 by Niroj
• 82,880 points

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