How to compress files in codeigniter?

Question

I have a form which sends 2 images to my controller

 <form action="generate" method="post" accept-charset="utf-8" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    <input type="file" name="image1" size="20" /> 
    <input type="file" name="image2" size="20" /> 
    <input type="submit" class="btn btn-success" value="upload" />
</form>

Now in my controller i want to compress image1 and image2 to zip format and save it in a folder. I also see this documentation but i don't know how to add 2 images in one file .

Any ideas?Thanks in advance.

raidenace · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-26 10:02:32Z

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Codeigniter has a library meant for helping with zip utilities:

You can load it like this:

$this->load->library('zip');

Then the class object can be accessed as:

$this->zip

For zipping a file, you can do this:

$path1 = '/path/to/photo1.jpg';  
$path2 = '/path/to/photo2.jpg';    
$this->zip->read_file($path1); 
$this->zip->read_file($path2); 
$this->zip->archive('/path/to/folder/my_images.zip');

You can read more at CodeIgniter's Zip Library Documentation

edited Jul 26, 2014 at 10:02

answered Jul 26, 2014 at 9:56

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Saeed Masoumi Over a year ago

I want to add to $_FILES['image1'] and $_FILES['image2'] to add_data

raidenace Over a year ago

You can use read_file() for that. Please check my updated answer

Saeed Masoumi Over a year ago

Should i change $path1 to $_FILES['image1']

raidenace Over a year ago

You have to provide the path to where the images it. The $_FILES array has that information in one of its indices

Saeed Masoumi Over a year ago

this is my Array

Array ( [image1] => Array ( [name] => temp1.png [type] => image/png [tmp_name] => /tmp/php8hwoG1 [error] => 0 [size] => 6342 )

should i pass $_FILES['image1']['tmp_name'] ?

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