Friday 15 February 2019

Make and Download Zip File using Codeigniter

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In this post, We will discuss how can we generate zip file of multiple file, after this save in folder, lastly download generated zip file by using Codeigniter framework. Codeigniter is one of the best PHP framework, which will boost you web development process and there many web developer has been used this framework for their web application development, because it is widely popular PHP framework. It has provide many built in helper and library which will help you to develop your web application very fast. This framework will helps to do many task very easily. So, here also we have one task like how to make zip file in Codeigniter framework.

Codeigniter Zip Encoding Class


If you have use Codeigniter framework, then it is very easy for you to create Zip file. Because Codeigniter has it's own built in Zip library. This class will used for generate Zip archives, and that Zip archives we can download in our local computer also. Now how to initialze this zip class. For this we have to write following code. 


$this->load->library('zip');

By using above code will can initialize Codeigniter Zip class, after this we can use different method of this class by calling $this->zip object. Now here we want to generate zip file of selected images from list of images. For this here we will use following method of this zip library.

read_file() - This method will read the content of a file and it will add into Zip.

add_data() - This method will add data to Zip file. In this define path of the file and data of this file.

archive() - This method will write file to the specified directory, in this method we have to define file name with complete path.

download() - This method will download created Zip file in our local computer, in this method we have to define zip file name.

Above all method of Codeigniter Zip class will help us to generate Zip file, save in folder and download in our local computer. Below you can find complete source code of this tutorial.


See Also



Make and Download Zip File using Codeigniter



Source Code


Zip_file.php(Controllers)



<?php
defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');

class Zip_file extends CI_Controller {
 
 function index()
 {
  $directory = 'download';
  $data["images"] = glob($directory . "/*.jpg");
  $this->load->view('zip_file', $data);
 }

 function download()
 {
  if($this->input->post('images'))
  {
   $this->load->library('zip');
   $images = $this->input->post('images');
   foreach($images as $image)
   {
    $this->zip->read_file($image);
   }
   $this->zip->download(''.time().'.zip');
  }
 }

}

?>




zip_file.php



<html>
<head>
    <title>How to Create ZIP File in CodeIgniter</title>
    
 <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.2.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css" />
 <script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
    
</head>
<body>
 <div class="container box">
  <h3 align="center">How to Create ZIP File in CodeIgniter</h3>
  <br />
  <form method="post" action="<?php echo base_url(); ?>zip_file/download">
  <?php
  foreach($images as $image)
  {
   echo '
   <div class="col-md-2" align="center" style="margin-bottom:24px;">
    <img src="'.base_url().''.$image.'" class="img-thumbnail img-responsive" />
     <br />
    <input type="checkbox" name="images[]" class="select" value="'.$image.'" />
   </div>
   ';
  }
  ?>
  <br />
  <div align="center">
   <input type="submit" name="download" class="btn btn-primary" value="Download" />
  </div>
  </form>
 </div>
</body>
</html>

<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
 $('.select').click(function(){
  if(this.checked)
  {
   $(this).parent().css('border', '5px solid #ff0000');
  }
  else
  {
   $(this).parent().css('border', 'none');
  }
 });
});
</script>




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