PHP

Create Zip in a BinData Object

See more Zip Examples

Recursively appends files in a directory tree and writes a zip archive into a Chilkat BinData object. Chilkat2 PHP

<?php

use Chilkat2\BinData;
use Chilkat2\Zip;

// This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$zip = new Zip();

// Initialize the zip object.  Because we will never actually write a zip file to the filesystem,
// the filepath passed to NewZip does not matter.
try {
    $zip->NewZip('x.zip');

    // Append a directory tree.  The call to AppendFiles does
    // not read the file contents or append them to the zip
    // object in memory.  It simply appends references
    // to the files so that when WriteBd, WriteZip, or WriteZipAndClose
    // is called, the referenced files are streamed and compressed
    // into the .zip output file (or BinData object).

    $recurse = true;
    $zip->AppendFiles('c:/temp/a/*', $recurse);

    // Write the zip archive into the bdZip object.
    $bdZip = new BinData();
    $zip->WriteBd($bdZip);
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

// We could directly access the bytes of the zip archive, or perhaps
// get the zip bytes in base64 format.
$zipAsBase64 = $bdZip->GetEncoded('base64');
echo $zipAsBase64, "\n";

// Or the zip can be used by some other Chilkat method call that accepts
// a BinData object as an argument.