Downloading folder as zip

PHP
1

Hi All,

Is this possible to keep downloading in the site itself ?
ie) Instead of download popup ask save?open?cancel? then proceed downloading , i have to keep downloading in site itself like buffering?

2

You can force a download using the ‘app/octet’ header:


function forceDownload($filename, $data)
    {
        header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
        header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$filename.'"');
        header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
        header('Expires: 0');
        header('Content-Length: '.strlen($data));

        if (strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'MSIE'))
        {
            header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
            header('Pragma: public');
        }
        else
        {
            header('Pragma: no-cache');
        }

        echo $data;
    }

To ZIP everything up, try something like:


$zip = new ZipArchive();
$zip->open($file, ZIPARCHIVE::CREATE);

$zip->addFromString("some description (e.g. downloaded from site.com)");

$i = 0;
foreach ($files as $file)
{
    if (is_file($file))
    {
        $zip->addFile($file, 'some name '.$i);
        $i++;
    }
}

$zip->close();
3

can u give me some sample paths? plz

4

You may use the php zip extension
http://php.net/manual/en/book.zip.php
or use one of the many zip pbp classes (the class of codeigniter or this )
The zip files will have names with non english names.
Please make some test if so-I had this problem.