Question

I made a drupal module, one of function of the module is to compress some files to be a zip package. It works fine in my local environment(xampp), but fails on server. My server does has php zip extension enabled, since I can see zip information on php info and I can unzip file with php as well.

Besides, I already chmod files to be 0777 .

My code:

$folder = file_directory_path();

$zip = new ZipArchive();

if ($zip->open('b.zip', ZIPARCHIVE::CREATE) === TRUE) {

    foreach ( $files as $file ) {
        drupal_set_message(t($file)); // I can see the the message on this stpe
        $zip->addFile($file);
    }

    $zip->close();
    if (file_exists('b.zip')) {

        copy('b.zip', $folder . '/b.zip');
        unlink('b.zip');
        global $base_url;
        variable_set('zippath', $base_url . $folder . '/b.zip');
        drupal_set_message(t('new zip package has been created'));
    }
} else {
    drupal_set_message(t('new zip package failed'));
}

Answer 1

Yes .. i know what you mean .. this are the 3 possibility

• You have write permissions
• You Did not use full path
• You are including folders as file

You can try this

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set("display_errors", "On");


$fullPath = __DIR__ ; // <-------- Full Path to directory
$fileZip = __DIR__ . "/b.zip";  // <---  Full path to zip

if(!is_writable($fullPath))
{
    trigger_error("You can't Write here");
}

$files = scandir($fullPath); // <--- Just to emulate your files
touch($fileZip); // <----------------- Try Creating the file temopary 


$zip = new ZipArchive();
if ($zip->open($fileZip, ZIPARCHIVE::CREATE) === TRUE) {

    foreach ( $files as $file ) {
        if ($file == "." || $file == "..")
            continue;
        $fileFull = $fullPath . "/$file";
        if (is_file($fileFull)) { // <-------------- Make Sure its a file
            $zip->addFile($fileFull, $file);
        }

        // Play your ball
    }
    $zip->close();
} else {
    echo "Failed";
}