Re: [PHP] create archive file in memory with zipArchive class

thanks, Richard, maybe you are right, the actual file name is not my job
I changed it to 'php://temp' but its still the same, nothing has been changed...

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Richard Quadling
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 9 February 2010 15:42, Ryan Sun <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I want to generate credential zip file for user on the fly with
>> zipArchive and render it for download, so I created following code
>> ---------------------------------------------------------
>> $zip = new ZipArchive();
>> $filename = '/tmp/xxx.zip';
>> if ($zip->open($filename, ZIPARCHIVE::CREATE)!==TRUE) {
>>      throw new Exception();
>> }
>> if($zip)
>> {
>>     $zip->addFromString('xxx.xx', $fileString);
>> }
>> $zip->close();
>> $fileString = file_get_contents($filename);
>> unlink($filename);
>>
>> $this->getResponse()->setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/zip');
>> $this->getResponse()->setHeader('Content-Disposition','attachment;filename=xxx.zip');
>> $this->getResponse()->setBody($fileString);
>> -----------------------------------------------------
>> it works, but I think creating the file in memory is a better
>> approach, so I changed the 2nd lineI(using php 5.2.0) to
>> $filename = 'php://temp/xxx.zip';
>> then the php just won't archive the file and the file downloaded is
>> just a plain text file.
>>
>> so
>> question 1, how to create zip Archive file in memory on the fly and
>> download it (I don't have to save it on disk)?
>> question 2, if there is no way to create in memory, is it safe to just
>> unlink() the file?
>>
>> thanks in advance.
>>
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>
> According to http://docs.php.net/manual/en/wrappers.php.php, it looks
> like you should be using ...
>
> $filename = 'php://temp';
>
> That's it.
>
> The actual file name is not your job.
>
>
>
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