not able to create zip file in codeigniter - php

Question

Below is the code to generate the zip of multiple files:
<?php
$file1 = 'D:/xampp/htdocs/pdf/pdffiles/14816393105-annexc-form.pdf';
$file2 = 'D:/xampp/htdocs/pdf/pdffiles/14816393105-resident-form.pdf'
$files = array($file1,$file2);
$zipname = time().'-file.zip';
$zip = new ZipArchive;
$zip->open($zipname, ZipArchive::CREATE);
foreach ($files as $file) {
$zip->addFile($file);
}
$zip->close();
header('Content-Type: application/zip');
header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename='.$zipname);
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($zipname));
readfile($zipname);
?>
This code does create the zip file but it is corrupted.
EDIT:
zip file is created but if i extract it then it is from the D:/ drive. Means zip file contains this:xampp\htdocs\pd‌​f\pdffiles\file1.pdf

Answer 1

You may specify a filename in addFile method. It is not obvious, since there are no noticeable examples around, but you can use $localname (second parameter) to define and control file/directory structure inside the zip. Use it if you do not want files to be included with their absolute directory tree.
Here is a working example using basename:
$file1 = 'D:/xampp/htdocs/pdf/pdffiles/14816393105-annexc-form.pdf';
// ...
$zip->addFile($file1, basename($file1));
basename returns trailing name component of path, so it will just keep 14816393105-annexc-form.pdf and add it to your zip.