note 112044 added to ziparchive.addfile

I had a huge number of files and folders that I needed to zip on a linux web server. I was running into timeout problems and file enumerator issues, as well as file handler limit issues (ulimit). I used a script to solve u limit offered by Farzad Ghanei first (ZipArchiveImproved), but closing and reopening his way didn't do the trick for me. I eventually did a simple call to a $filelimit variable I created that records file handler limit I want my script to hit before it closes and reopens the file. <?php $filelimit = 255; if ($zip->numFiles == $filelimit) {$zip->close(); $zip->open($file) or die ("Error: Could not reopen Zip");} ?> This made some progress for me, timeouts were gone, but when calling <?php $zip->addFile($filepath, $archivefilepath); ?> after the reopening of the Zip, I got an error. I echoed the <?php $zip->numFiles; ?> and found that after reopening, the numFile enum reset to '0'. A few more goose-chases later, I tried addFromString with some better results, but did not get it working 100% until I actually coupled addFromString with addFile! My working scripting for the add files function on massive file-folder structures looks like so: <?php $sourcefolder = /rel/path/to/source/folder/on/server/ $dirlist = new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($sourcefolder); $filelist = new RecursiveIteratorIterator($dirlist); //how many file can be added before a reopen is forced? $filelimit = 245; // Defines the action $file = tempnam("tmp", "zip"); $zip = new ZipArchive(); // This creates and then gives the option to save the zip file if ($zip->open($file, ZipArchive::OVERWRITE) !== TRUE) { die ("Could not open archive"); } // adds files to the file list foreach ($filelist as $key=>$value) { //fix archive paths $path = str_replace($sourcefolder, "", $key); //remove the source path from the $key to return only the file-folder structure from the root of the source folder if (!file_exists($key)) { die($key.' does not exist. Please contact your administrator or try again later.'); } if (!is_readable($key)) { die($key.' not readable. Please contact your administrator or try again later.'); } if ($zip->numFiles == $filelimit) {$zip->close(); $zip->open($file) or die ("Error: Could not reopen Zip");} $zip->addFromString($path, $key) or die ("ERROR: Could not add file: $key </br> numFile:".$zip->numFiles); $zip->addFile(realpath($key), $path) or die ("ERROR: Could not add file: $key </br> numFile:".$zip->numFiles); } // closes the archive $zip->close(); //make local temp file a .zip, rename, and move to output dir rename ($file, "./" . $outputfolder . "/" . $zipfilename); ?> I hope this may help someone else. ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.199 Probable Submitter: 75.119.73.122 ---- Manual Page -- http://php.net/manual/en/ziparchive.addfile.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/112044 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/112044/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/112044/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/112044/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/112044/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/112044/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/112044/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/112044 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/112044 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php