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PHP Extension Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Transition from Zip.AppendBd to Zip.AddBd

Provides instructions for replacing deprecated AppendBd method calls with AddBd.

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<?php

include("chilkat.php");

$success = false;

$zip = new CkZip();

//  ...
//  ...

$pathInZip = 'example.dat';

$bd = new CkBinData();
$bd->LoadFile('c:/someDir/example.dat');

//  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
//  The AppendBd method is deprecated:
//  AppendBd returns the zip entry object, which is usually not needed.

// entryObj is a CkZipEntry
$entryObj = $zip->AppendBd($pathInZip,$bd);
if ($zip->get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
    print $zip->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  ...
//  ...

//  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
//  Do the equivalent using AddBd.

//  Instead of returning the zip entry object, we just return success/failure.
$success = $zip->AddBd($pathInZip,$bd);
if ($success == false) {
    print $zip->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  Do the following if you need the zip entry object for what was just appended.
//  The newly appended entry is the last one.
$ze = new CkZipEntry();
$index = $zip->get_NumEntries() - 1;
$zip->EntryAt($index,$ze);

?>