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PHP Extension Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Transition from Zip.AppendNewDir to Zip.AddEmpty

Provides instructions for replacing deprecated AppendNewDir method calls with AddEmpty.

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<?php

include("chilkat.php");

$success = false;

$zip = new CkZip();

//  ...
//  ...
$pathInZip = 'exampleDir';

//  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
//  The AppendNewDir method is deprecated:

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

//  ...
//  ...

//  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
//  Do the equivalent using AddEmpty.

//  Indicate the newly appended entry is a directory entry.
$isDir = true;

//  Instead of returning the zip entry object, we just return success/failure.
$success = $zip->AddEmpty($isDir,$pathInZip);
if ($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);

?>