Create a Zip file using PHP
July 26, 2022 ‐ 1 min read
The archive extensions "Zip" allows you to create Zip archives with PHP. We can easily create Zip files by making use of the ZipArchive class.
<?php
$zip = new ZipArchive();
$zip->open('./destination.zip', ZipArchive::CREATE);
// addFile('file path', 'file name in zip archive');
$zip->addFile('./README.md', 'README.md');
$zip->close();
After "opening" the Zip archive we can start adding files, at last we need to call the close method to properly save the changes.