How to zip a whole folder using PHP

Question

I have found here at stackoveflow some codes on how to ZIP a specific file, but how about a specific folder?

Folder/
  index.html
  picture.jpg
  important.tx         


        

Answer 1

There is a useful undocumented method in the ZipArchive class: addGlob();

$zipFile = "./testZip.zip";
$zipArchive = new ZipArchive();

if ($zipArchive->open($zipFile, (ZipArchive::CREATE | ZipArchive::OVERWRITE)) !== true)
    die("Failed to create archive\n");

$zipArchive->addGlob("./*.txt");
if ($zipArchive->status != ZIPARCHIVE::ER_OK)
    echo "Failed to write files to zip\n";

$zipArchive->close();

Now documented at: www.php.net/manual/en/ziparchive.addglob.php