Question

I want the code to make all files in the tree to .zip files in the root

   <?PHP
// create object
$zip = new ZipArchive();

// open archive 
if ($zip->open('my-archive.zip', ZIPARCHIVE::CREATE) !== TRUE) {
    die ("Could not open archive");
}

// list of files to add
// list of files to add
$fileList = array(
    'im/asd.pdf',
    'im/df.pdf',
    'im/d/qoyyum.txt'
);

// add files
foreach ($fileList as $f) {
    $zip->addFile($f) or die ("ERROR: Could not add file: $f");   
}

// close and save archive
$zip->close();
echo "Archive created successfully.";    
?> 

for example folder /im contains

/im/asd.pdf
/im/df.pdf
/im/d/qoyyum.txt

the ‘my-archive.zip’ extract should look like this

my-archive/asd.pdf
my-archive/df.pdf
my-archive/qoyyum.txt

I want to prevent the folder hierarchy when extracting the zip. so that every files should be in the root of the extracted zip folder

please suggest a tip to do

Answer 1

There’s a second parameter in ZipArchive::addFile() called localname (see here) which lets you set the local name of the file within the zip archive. Use this to override the directory structure which is the default.

foreach ($fileList as $f) {
    $filename_parts = explode('/', $f);  // Split the filename up by the '/' character
    $zip->addFile($f, end($filename_parts)) or die ("ERROR: Could not add file: $f");   
}