Thread: Compress folder using zip command with PHP

hello everybody,

while using zip command line php add folder archive file:

general command:

code:

zip archive.zip file.mp3

php code:

php code:

 <?php
$path2mp3 = '../downloads/medias/mp3/001.mp3';
$site = 'site.com';
$compressfolder = $site.'.zip';
$cmd = "zip -r $compressfolder $path2mp3";
                        
$compressmp3 = exec($cmd ." 2>&1" );
echo $compressmp3;
                        
if($compressmp3)
{
echo 'done';
}
else
{
echo 'not done';
}

?>

output:

code:

updating: ../downloads/medias/mp3/001.mp3 (deflated 6%)

i cannot find file, , don't know whether created or not.

in command line:

code:

$ zip archive.zip 001.mp3    adding: 001.mp3 (deflated 6%) $ ls archive.zip

thanks in advance

are running script via apache or @ command-line?

if former, may have file permission issues since files created owned user www-data , must placed in directory www-data has write permissions.

if running @ command line, why using php? write shell script.

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