PHP ActiveX

Modify Name of File Stored within Zip when Creating a .zip

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Demonstrates how to create a zip where the filename within the .zip is different than the filename that was added from the filesystem. PHP ActiveX

<?php

$success = 0;

// This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$zip = new COM("Chilkat.Zip");

// Intialize the zip object by calling NewZip.
$success = $zip->NewZip('myZip.zip');

// Add a reference to a file on disk to the zip object.
// (When appending files to a zip, the files are not actually
// read into memory.  References to the file(s) are added.
// When WriteZip is called, the referenced files are streamed in
// and compressed to the .zip.)
$saveExtraPath = 0;
$success = $zip->AddFile('/temp/a/hamlet.xml',$saveExtraPath);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $zip->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// The zip object references a single file.
// Retrieve the entry object...
$entry = new COM("Chilkat.ZipEntry");
$zip->EntryAt(0,$entry);

// Set the entry's filename to anything you want:
$entry->FileName = 'somethingElse.xml';

// Note: Internally, the zip component retains the name of
// the file referenced.  The current setting of the zip entry's
// FileName property is stored in the .zip when writing.

// The zip written here will contain somethingElse.xml
$success = $zip->WriteZipAndClose();
if ($success != 1) {
    print $zip->LastErrorText . "\n";
}
else {
    print 'Zip created!' . "\n";
}


?>