Zip a remote file

The-Master

How would I go about zipping a remote file?

So far I have this script. It is not working. It works with local files though:

<?php
ini_set("memory_limit","-1");
$z= new ZipArchive;
if ($z->open('test2.zip') === TRUE) {
    $z->addFile('http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/images/logo.gif', 'google.gif');
    $z->close();
    echo 'opened correctly';
} else {
    echo 'failed';
}

cahva

Well it works on local files only so first save the remote file to your server and then add it to the zip.

The-Master

cahva wrote:
Well it works on local files only so first save the remote file to your server and then add it to the zip.

I have quite a lot of files to save from other sites so this would make the script take a while to run. If there is no alternative I will do this but is there a way to just save the file to the zip directly?

Xager

The-Master wrote:
I have quite a lot of files to save from other sites so this would make the script take a while to run. If there is no alternative I will do this but is there a way to just save the file to the zip directly?

Just store the files in the php tmp dir and they'll be automaticlly removed when the script ends

bradgrafelman

Or load the files into a string (e.g. using [man]file_get_contents/man) and use [man]ZipArchive::addFromString/man.