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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.

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<?php

include("chilkat.php");

$success = false;

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

$zip = new CkZip();

//  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 = false;
$success = $zip->AddFile('/temp/a/hamlet.xml',$saveExtraPath);
if ($success == false) {
    print $zip->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

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

//  Set the entry's filename to anything you want:
$entry->put_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 != true) {
    print $zip->lastErrorText() . "\n";
}
else {
    print 'Zip created!' . "\n";
}


?>