PHP 7.0.6 Released

    ZipArchive::addEmptyDir

    (PHP 5 >= 5.2.0, PHP 7, PECL zip >= 1.8.0)

    ZipArchive::addEmptyDir — Add a new directory

    Description

    bool ZipArchive::addEmptyDir ( string $dirname )

    Adds an empty directory in the archive.

    Parameters

    dirname

    The directory to add.

    Return Values

    Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.

    Examples

    Example #1 Create a new directory in an archive

    <?php
    $zip     = new ZipArchive;
    if (    $zip->open('test.zip') === TRUE) {
        if(    $zip->addEmptyDir('newDirectory')) {
            echo     'Created a new root directory';
        } else {
            echo     'Could not create the directory';
        }
            $zip->close();
    } else {
        echo     'failed';
    }
    ?>

    User Contributed Notes

    hunter666 at abv dot bg
    5 years ago
    Add folder and sub-directories to zip archive.

    <?php
    $archive_name     = "archive.zip"; // name of zip file
    $archive_folder = "folder"; // the folder which you archivate

    $zip = new ZipArchive;
    if (    $zip -> open($archive_name, ZipArchive::CREATE) === TRUE)
    {
            $dir = preg_replace('/[\/]{2,}/', '/', $archive_folder."/");
       
            $dirs = array($dir);
        while (    count($dirs))
        {
                $dir = current($dirs);
                $zip -> addEmptyDir($dir);
           
                $dh = opendir($dir);
            while(    $file = readdir($dh))
            {
                if (    $file != '.' && $file != '..')
                {
                    if (    is_file($file))
                            $zip -> addFile($dir.$file, $dir.$file);
                    elseif (    is_dir($file))
                            $dirs[] = $dir.$file."/";
                }
            }
                closedir($dh);
                array_shift($dirs);
        }
       
            $zip -> close();
        echo     'Archiving is sucessful!';
    }
    else
    {
        echo     'Error, can\'t create a zip file!';
    }
    ?>
    pagetronic
    7 years ago
    addEmptyDir doesn't exist now,
    use $zip->addFile($file, $dir.$fichier);

    nothing on the net about this,

    addEmptyDir work on Ubuntu but not on Debian Etch
    tahazit dot co dot il at gmail dot com
    1 year ago
    On PHP >5.4, This function will create a file, not a directory.

    For instance:

       $zip->addEmptyDir ( 'path/to/dir/' );

    will create the folders "path/", and "path/to/", and a dummy 0-byte file named "dir" in the latter.
    If then we add a file to that dir, say like this:

       $zip->addFromString ( 'path/to/dir/file.txt', $data ); 

    the result will be a SEPARATE folder named "dir" next to the dummy "dir" file. The "dir" folder will contain the file "file.txt".

    This was tested on an APACHE server running PHP 5.4
    thomas dot rubbert at yahoo dot de
    6 years ago
    Here's a stack-based way to zip a directory. No recursion, no function, no class:

    <?php
    $zip     = new ZipArchive();
    $zip->open('test.zip', ZipArchive::CREATE);

    $dirName = 'test';

    if (!    is_dir($dirName)) {
        throw new     Exception('Directory ' . $dirName . ' does not exist');
    }

    $dirName = realpath($dirName);
    if (    substr($dirName, -1) != '/') {
            $dirName.= '/';
    }

    /*
    * NOTE BY danbrown AT php DOT net: A good method of making
    * portable code in this case would be usage of the PHP constant
    * DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR in place of the '/' (forward slash) above.
    */

    $dirStack = array($dirName);
    //Find the index where the last dir starts
    $cutFrom = strrpos(substr($dirName, 0, -1), '/')+1;

    while (!empty(    $dirStack)) {
            $currentDir = array_pop($dirStack);
            $filesToAdd = array();

            $dir = dir($currentDir);
        while (    false !== ($node = $dir->read())) {
            if ((    $node == '..') || ($node == '.')) {
                continue;
            }
            if (    is_dir($currentDir . $node)) {
                    array_push($dirStack, $currentDir . $node . '/');
            }
            if (    is_file($currentDir . $node)) {
                    $filesToAdd[] = $node;
            }
        }

            $localDir = substr($currentDir, $cutFrom);
            $zip->addEmptyDir($localDir);
       
        foreach (    $filesToAdd as $file) {
                $zip->addFile($currentDir . $file, $localDir . $file);
        }
    }

    $zip->close();
    ?>
    Anonymous
    7 years ago
    Here's a simple recurring function to add a directory, all sub-directories and all files to an already created zip file;

    <?php
    // Function to recursively add a directory,
    // sub-directories and files to a zip archive
    function addFolderToZip($dir, $zipArchive){
        if (    is_dir($dir)) {
            if (    $dh = opendir($dir)) {

                    //Add the directory
                    $zipArchive->addEmptyDir($dir);
               
                    // Loop through all the files
                    while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
               
                        //If it's a folder, run the function again!
                        if(!is_file($dir . $file)){
                            // Skip parent and root directories
                            if( ($file !== ".") && ($file !== "..")){
                                addFolderToZip($dir . $file . "/", $zipArchive);
                        }
                       
                    }else{
                            // Add the files
                            $zipArchive->addFile($dir . $file);
                       
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
    ?>

    Would be nice to see more input on these functions :)

    Dayjo
    benjamin dot seiller at antwerpes dot de
    7 years ago
    There is kind of a bug in the method
    ZipArchive::addFile
    which affects the class ZipFolder below.
    It is related to the numer of max filehandles of the OS.

    As workaround add a file-counter to the class and close + reopen the archive if a certain number of files (directories count as files!) is reached.

    For more details see here:
    http://de.php.net/manual/en/function.ziparchive-addfile.php
    or go directly here
    http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=40494
    or here
    http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=9443
    D.Jann
    7 years ago
    I've brought a little modification to dayjo's code, so it wouldn't re-create the whole structure of your working drive in the zip file:

    <?php
    // Function to recursively add a directory,
    // sub-directories and files to a zip archive
    function addFolderToZip($dir, $zipArchive, $zipdir = ''){
        if (    is_dir($dir)) {
            if (    $dh = opendir($dir)) {

                    //Add the directory
                    if(!empty($zipdir)) $zipArchive->addEmptyDir($zipdir);
              
                    // Loop through all the files
                    while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
              
                        //If it's a folder, run the function again!
                        if(!is_file($dir . $file)){
                            // Skip parent and root directories
                            if( ($file !== ".") && ($file !== "..")){
                                addFolderToZip($dir . $file . "/", $zipArchive, $zipdir . $file . "/");
                        }
                      
                    }else{
                            // Add the files
                            $zipArchive->addFile($dir . $file, $zipdir . $file);
                      
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
    ?>

    If you don't specify the third parameter (zipdir), the directory you're adding will be added at the root of the zip file.

    D.Jann
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