Create Directories

[dotriz]

I know how we can add files in folders and sub-folders in a zip. But is it possible to add blank folders?

I want to allow users to download their data in zip and want to match exactly same structure as they have on web, so creating lank folders is important.

[NicolasCARPi]

Hello @dotriz,

You can do like that to create an empty directory (with version 1.0.0-alpha):

$zip->addFile('directory/', '');

[dotriz]

@NicolasCARPi Any plan to add this support in previous versions?

[NicolasCARPi]

It doesn't work in previous versions?

[maennchen]

@NicolasCARPi We should probably add a new function createDirectory that does this. This seems like a hack to me.

I would add the function to the v1 versions only.

[dotriz]

@NicolasCARPi that's correct, it doesn't work on previous versions.

[claytron5000]

I came here looking for this. I basically want to replace the PHP standard ZipArchive with this so that I can build and stream directly to s3. Our current implementation using ZipArchive uses the addEmptyDir.

I don't know if this is too ambitious, but something like a drop-in replacement for ZipArchive would be awesome. Maybe this should be a different issue.

https://www.php.net/manual/en/class.ziparchive.php

[walkingCommiter]

I have faced the same issue creating empty folders fails except if using what @NicolasCARPi suggested:

$zip->addFile($directory . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, '');

However, testing the download of a zipStream causes unit test failure since it counts empty folders created this way as a file:

$zip = new ZipArchive();
$zip->open($tempName); // open the downloaded stream
self::assertEquals($expectedFilesCount, $zip->count); // count is incorrect -- it counts folders as file

this counts extra for each folder which is totally wrong also happens for $zip

[christian-kolb]

@maennchen Help wanted, means a pull request for it would be merged? 🙂