ZipArchive PHP adding only files without directories from the whole path

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Fellow coders: Hate to ask this question, as it was, I belive correctly answered two times: Here And here So the problem is: when unzipping the downloaded 'file.zip', after unzipping, it contains all the folders from the path, even tough I specified the local file in the addFile function. I'd like the zip file not to contain any subfolder, just files. ``` $zipname = str_replace(' ', '_', $obj['Name']) . '.zip'; $zip = new ZipArchive(); $zip->open($zipname, ZipArchive::CREATE); foreach ($files as $file) { // $file looks like this: webroot/uploadify/files/file.jpg $zip->addFile($file, pathinfo($file, PATHINFO_BASENAME)); } $zip->close(); header('Content-Description: File Transfer'); header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary'); header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0'); header("Content-type: application/zip"); header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=" . $zipname); header("Pragma: no-cache"); header("Expires: 0"); header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($z…

Accepted Answer

I have run your code and it works as expected. So there are 3 things that could be going wrong from what I can see.

Try using these flags in case an old file still exists and it is not being overwritten (it is not clear what $obj['Name'] is set to ) If you read the comments in the php manual, there are varying degrees of success using ZIPARCHIVE::CREATE vs ZIPARCHIVE::OVERWRITE, so perhaps using both will work.

```
$zip->open( $zipname, ZIPARCHIVE::CREATE | ZIPARCHIVE::OVERWRITE );
```

Pathinfo could be failing and returning the whole path or null for some reason

Is it possible to do a var_dump on the pathinfo output, just to confirm it is what you expect it to be?

```
foreach ( $files as $file )
{
     var_dump(pathinfo( $file, PATHINFO_BASENAME ));

// $file looks like this: webroot/uploadify/files/file.jpg
    // $zip->addFile( $file, pathinfo( $file, PATHINFO_BASENAME ) );
}
```

Maybe there is a bug with your os/php version with addFile function (unlikely, grasping at straws here as i can't see any other explanation)

ZipArchive PHP adding only files without directories from the whole path

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