ZIP all files in directory and download generated .zip

Question

Well, first of all, this is my folder structure:

images/

image1.png
image11.png
image111.png
image223.png
generate_zip.php

And this is min

Answer 1

open('sample.zip',  ZipArchive::CREATE);
$srcDir = "C:\\xampp\\htdocs\\uploads"; //location of the directory
$files= scandir($srcDir);
print_r($files);  // to check if files are actually coming in the array

unset($files[0],$files[1]);
foreach ($files as $file) {
    $zip->addFile($srcDir.'\\'.$file, $file);
    echo "bhandari";
}
$zip->close();

$file='sample.zip';
if (headers_sent()) {
    echo 'HTTP header already sent';
} else {
    if (!is_file($file)) {
        header($_SERVER['SERVER_PROTOCOL'].' 404 Not Found');
        echo 'File not found';
    } else if (!is_readable($file)) {
        header($_SERVER['SERVER_PROTOCOL'].' 403 Forbidden');
        echo 'File not readable';
    } else {
        header($_SERVER['SERVER_PROTOCOL'].' 200 OK');
        header("Content-Type: application/zip");
        header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: Binary");
        header("Content-Length: ".filesize($file));
        header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".basename($file)."\"");
        while (ob_get_level()) {
            ob_end_clean();
          }
        readfile($file);
        exit;
    }
}



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Note: Don't forget to use ob_start(); and end .