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baconck
baconck

Reputation: 406

PHP - Create and download ZipArchive returns CPGZ when opening

The function does not seem to be creating the ZIP file properly. The file prompt to downloads works fine. However when opening it, it just creates copy with .cpgz format.

For reference: foreach ($attachments as $file) outputs as "/upload/image.jpg" 

function downloadAttachment() {
    $zipname = 'attachments.zip';
    $zip = new ZipArchive;
    $zip->open($zipname, ZipArchive::CREATE);
    foreach ($attachments as $file) {
      $fileSrc = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . $file["file_attachment"];
      $zip->addFile($fileSrc);
    }
    $zip->close();

    header('Content-Type: application/zip');
    header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename='.$zipname);
    header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($zipname));
    ob_clean();
    flush();
    readfile($zipname);
}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 754

Answers (1)

Armen
Armen

Reputation: 4202

You can use dirname(__FILE__) - it return you absolute path to your current php script, make var_dump( dirname(__FILE__) ) to see what it gives you and then relocate with ../ or /folders/.. to your attachments directory

so your $zipname will be something like $zipname = dirname(__FILE__) .'/../some_folders/attachements/attachments.zip';

and make sure that directory is writable by www-data user or just chmod it 0777 in any case

__FILE__ is one of PHP's magic constants you can check more here - http://php.net/manual/en/language.constants.predefined.php

one more good practice is to define somewhere in configs.php which is included on every php define('ROOT_DIR', "absolute root path of your project"); then use ROOT_DIR variable everywhere in your project as prefix for all folders ROOT_DIR."/folder/file ..."

Upvotes: 1

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