Laravel - Create a zip file and store it using Laravel's Storage facade

Hi

I need to create a zip file and store it using laravels Storage facade. I wish to use the Storage facade because we might change the storage to s3 or sftp later on, so I don't want to have to rewrite this again.

I am currently using php's native ZipArchive class

$filePath = 'path/to/file/file.txt';
$fileName = 'file.txt';

$zipPath = 'storage/app/public/zips/myZip.zip';

$zip = new \ZipArchive();
if (!$zip->open($zipPath, \ZipArchive::CREATE | \ZipArchive::OVERWRITE)) {
    throw new \Exception('Failed to create zip file');
}
$zip->addFile($filePath, $fileName);
$zip->close();

This is a highly simplified version of my code.

The problem here is that this creates the file on the local filesystem, but I wish to create the zip in memory (without creating a local/temp file) and then store it by doing something like

Storage::put( 'zips/myZip.zip' , $zip);

For now, lets assume that the zip file is really small so there wont be any out of memory or timeout issues, so any idea on how I could achieve the same using the Storage class?

One solution I came up with is first create the file with ZipArchive, fetch its content and then store it using the Storage class, and then delete the local file, but that creates a lot of unecessary additional steps and includes creating a temporary file, I am hoping for a solution in which I do not need the temporary file.