Actually I was trying to zip the files uploaded. I have the array of the path of files fetched from DB. I tried to implement from the articles but it gives an error while sending the response. It says zip file not found. I manually tried to create the zip file, but it after controller calls, the manually created file deletes automatically. Please give your suggestions on this. i tried this
public function show(Project $project, $type)
{
try {
$files = $project[$this->types[$type]]->pluck('file')->map(static function (File $file) {
return $file->getOriginal('url');
});
if ($files->isEmpty()) {
throw new \Exception();
}
$zip_file = $this->types[$type] . '.zip';
$zip = new ZipArchive;
if ($zip->open(public_path($zip_file), ZipArchive::CREATE | ZipArchive::OVERWRITE) === TRUE) {
foreach ($files as $value) {
$zip->addFile($value, public_path($value));
}
$zip->close();
}
return response()->download(public_path($zip_file));
} catch (\Exception $e) {
throw new NotFoundHttpException();
}
}
Occasionally when https://testmyspeed.onl/ https://solitaire.onl/ I download content online, some files require me to use winrar to unzip them. What exactly are zipped files and how does unzipping them work? Also whats the purpose behind zipping files?
@carsongrey in my project, a Model has different files, like docx file, csv an other documents. I want to get and download all the documents zipped. We can unzip it after the compressed file is downloaded.
try to see following laracast url
@saileshbro My code is working well:
class CompressFileTask
{
/**
* Compress file and return file name.
*
* @param string $path Path
* @param string $file file name
* @param string $extension extension
*
* @return string
*/
public function handle(string $path, string $file, string $extension)
{
$zip = new \ZipArchive();
$fileName = pathinfo($file, PATHINFO_FILENAME);
$zip->open($path.$fileName.$extension, \ZipArchive::CREATE);
$zip->addFile($path.$file, $file);
$zip->close();
return $fileName.$extension;
}
}
Call it
app(CompressFileTask::class)->handle($path, $fileName, '.gz');
@trungtranqn91 actually it was the issue with the server temp folder. I had to change the php.ini file, and it worked.
nice !
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