How to gzip folder in laravel project?
How to gzip folder in laravel project?
1 answer
by
larissa ,
3 months ago
@cali_green
To gzip a folder in a Laravel project, you can use the ZipArchive class provided by PHP. Here's an example of how you can achieve this:
- First, create a new controller (e.g., GzipController) in your Laravel project.
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php artisan make:controller GzipController |
- Open the GzipController.php file and add the following method to compress a folder using the ZipArchive class:
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use ZipArchive;
use IlluminateHttpRequest;
public function gzipFolder(Request $request)
{
$dir = public_path('folder-to-gzip'); // specify the folder to be gzipped
$zipFile = public_path('compressed-folder.zip'); // path of the output gzipped file
$zip = new ZipArchive;
if ($zip->open($zipFile, ZipArchive::CREATE) === TRUE) {
$files = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($dir));
foreach ($files as $file) {
$filePath = $file->getRealPath();
$relativePath = substr($filePath, strlen($dir) + 1);
if (is_file($filePath)) {
$zip->addFile($filePath, $relativePath);
}
}
$zip->close();
return response()->download($zipFile)->deleteFileAfterSend(true);
} else {
return response()->json(['message' => 'Failed to create compressed file'], 500);
}
}
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- Create a route in your routes/web.php file to access the gzipFolder method in your GzipController:
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Route::get('/gzip-folder', 'GzipController@gzipFolder');
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- Finally, you can access the gzipFolder method by visiting the /gzip-folder route in your Laravel project. This will compress the specified folder and prompt the user to download the gzipped file.
Please make sure to replace folder-to-gzip with the path of the folder you want to gzip and compressed-folder.zip with the desired output gzipped file name.