Create an encrypted zip archive with PHP

Question

I am searching for a way to encrypt a .txt file into a zip, but in a secure password protected way. My goal is to email this file to me, without anyone being able to read th

Answer 1

Although PHP is a mature language, there is no adequate method (excluding custom extension or something like that) to achieve such a simple task with pure PHP.

What you also can do, is to wait until PHP 7.2 will be available for production (because ZipArchive::setEncryptionName is implemented (thanks to Pierre and Remi)).

But, until then you also can try to port php_zip >= 1.14.0 to PHP < 7.2, but there is currently no compiled binaries available, so you have to compile it yourself and try if it is possible at all (I believe it is).

PS I would try it, but have no VS2015+ on my PC right now.