Recursively zip files with PHP
This function is useful for zipping files/directories when you only have FTP access to a site, and for when you are using a web host ‘File Manager’ which bugs out on permissions or otherwise.
function Zip($source, $destination) { if (!extension_loaded('zip') || !file_exists($source)) { return false; } $zip = new ZipArchive(); if (!$zip->open($destination, ZIPARCHIVE::CREATE)) { return false; } $source = str_replace('\', '/', realpath($source)); if (is_dir($source) === true) { $files = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($source), RecursiveIteratorIterator::SELF_FIRST); foreach ($files as $file) { $file = str_replace('\', '/', $file); // Ignore "." and ".." folders if( in_array(substr($file, strrpos($file, '/')+1), array('.', '..')) ) continue; $file = realpath($file); if (is_dir($file) === true) { $zip->addEmptyDir(str_replace($source . '/', '', $file . '/')); } else if (is_file($file) === true) { $zip->addFromString(str_replace($source . '/', '', $file), file_get_contents($file)); } } } else if (is_file($source) === true) { $zip->addFromString(basename($source), file_get_contents($source)); } return $zip->close(); } Zip('/folder/to/compress/', './compressed.zip');