ZIP a specific directory.

[eluser]leighmarble[/eluser]
[quote author="TheFuzzy0ne" date="1236153265"]I have one final suggestion for now. That is to CD into the directory you want to zip.

Code:

chdir('files/mydirectory/');
$this->zip->read_dir('.');
$this->zip->download('mydirectory.zip');

[/quote]

OK, now we're on to something!

The above code produced a PHP error for every file and subdirectory in "mydirectory", saying:
Message: file_get_contents(.index.html) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory
and
Message: file_get_contents(.images) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory

Note the prefixing of the "." before each file and directory name. Somewhere along the line, the period is being treated as a literal character, rather than as the web server's special designation for "this directory". (Perhaps that's the root of the problem with the Zip class as well?)

In any case, here's the code that finally worked:

Code:

chdir(getcwd() .'/files/');
$this->zip->read_dir('mydirectory/');

In other words, switch the current working directory to the parent directory of the dir you want to zip. Then, feed read_dir just the name of your target dir (with the trailing slash). Boom, it works.

Cheers, and thanks for helping with the brainstorm,
Leigh