A trusted library for generating .rar or .zip files

[Kriss_Kals]

Hi,

is anyone using a proven and up-to-date library in their projects to generate .rar or .zip files that contain files generated from a user download site?

Thanks from the replies.

Regards

[froschdesign]

For the topic RAR files, see also:

Create RAR file with password protection

I think you missed the important notice in the documentation: Rar Compression not supported Due to restrictions with the Rar compression format, there is no compression available for free. When you want to compress files into a new Rar archive, you must provide a callback to the adapter that can invoke a Rar compression program. https://docs.zendframework.com/zend-filter/standard-filters/#rar-adapter This means, you can not create RAR files with plain PHP. (ZF is also plain PHP) You need a…

[ezkimo]

For my own I use PHP 's native ZipArchive class, which provides everything you need to create an ZIP archive and protect it via password. There is no need for another dependency in the form of another library.

I guess there is no up to date library, which does exactly what you want. If the user resource is public, just fetch the file content and store it directly into the zip archive.

As froschdesign already said, generating rar files is a slightly pain in the ass. Of course, you can also do this with a little more effort. But you should always ask yourself whether it is worth it.

[froschdesign]

The same here. I also use the ZipArchive from PHP directly. I don’t know if the ZIP adapter for Flysystem still works.

[froschdesign]

And never used the corresponding filter of laminas-filter:

Standard Filters - laminas-filter - Laminas Docs