How to zip and unzip zip files between linux host and windows - php

Question

I have lot's of problem with ziping and unziping zip files between xammp windows server and linux host.
What's the way to zip files in xammp on windows and unzip it in linux host and vise versa?

Answer 1

PHP has built-in extension for zipping and unzipping:
<?php
$zip = new ZipArchive;
$res = $zip->open('file.zip');
if ($res === TRUE) {
$zip->extractTo('/myzips/extract_path/');
$zip->close();
echo 'woot!';
} else {
echo 'doh!';
}
?>

Answer 2

I would recommend Zippy it abstracts the platform and does a good job, BTW, it supports a couple of compression methods, please take a look at it.
Archive listing and extraction:
use Alchemy\Zippy\Zippy;
$zippy = Zippy::load();
$zippy->create('archive.zip', '/path/to/folder');
$archive = $zippy->open('build.tar');
// extract content to `/tmp`
$archive->extract('/tmp');
// iterates through members
foreach ($archive as $member) {
echo "archive contains $member \n";
}
Archive creation
use Alchemy\Zippy\Zippy;
$zippy = Zippy::load();
// creates an archive.zip that contains a directory "folder" that contains
// files contained in "/path/to/directory" recursively
$archive = $zippy->create('archive.zip', array(
'folder' => '/path/to/directory'
), recursive = true);