Re: Re: Zip files: generate text file in archive on the fly

On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 17:22 -0700, Justin Martin wrote: > On 10-10-17 03:55 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > I need to provide a download of a zip archive containing three files. > > This is fairly straightforward in PHP so long as one is working with > > files that already exist. However, I need to customise one of the > > files (a simple text file) with the user name and other info before > > zipping. I see no mention of this in the fine manual, and even > > googling has led me nowhere. Ideas? Am I missing something obvious? > > > > Thanks! > > > > The solution to this seems to be as simple as grabbing the contents of > the file using ZipArchive::getFromName (or equivalent), deleting that > file in the archive, modifying the contents, then writing the file using > ZipArchive::addFromString. > > Were ZipArchive::getStream able to handle write operations, I imagine > you could modify it this way, but reading the file in for modification > is much less issue-laden. > > I haven't tested it, but you could also simply try using > ZipArchive::addFromString without deleting the file first. It may just > overwrite the file. > > Thanks, > Justin Martin > I ran into this issue with something similar, where i wanted to unzip a file from file_get_contents(), but it required a "real file"... the solution (copied from this the reply on here) On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 10:12 -0700, Jim Lucas wrote: > Might see if this page will glean you any information > http://us3.php.net/manual/en/wrappers.php.php > > I think the php://temp or php://memory will work for you instead of a > file on the file system. maybe this will help you create a "temp file" in memory taht you can add to the zip file. Hope that helps :) Steve