Laravel Create Download Zip Archive File Example Tutorial

Hi artisan when you navigate file in server with your browser and there are many files but you want them zip with a single file so that you easily download with one click attachment is download to your computer. Today I will show you how to create zip file in Laravel.

You can use other package over the interent to make zip file, but this tutorial we will use ziparchive without install 3rd party package to perform this task. Laravel provide ZipArchive class for create zip file in laravel which is built-in I will show very short and quick to implement this.

Laravel Create Zip File Tutorial

• Step 1 - Install Laravel
• Step 2 - Create Controller
• Step 3 - Add Route
• Step 4 - Run Laravel Server

Step 1 - Install Laravel

We are going to download a fresh Laravel app by runing follow command, if you not yet install composer please read this from sctrach to install Laravel in your computer.

composer create-project laravel/laravel blog

Step 2 - Create Controller

Now we will generate a controller file to handle Zip Archive file. Running following command to create the file with name ZipController.php

Open terminal run command

php artisan make:controller ZipController

Open file app -> Http -> Controllers -> ZipController.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use ZipArchive;

public function ZipController()
{                                
    public function index()
    {
      $zip = new ZipArchive;
      $fileName = 'Document.zip';
      if ($zip->open(public_path($fileName), ZipArchive::CREATE) === TRUE)
      {
          $files = \File::files(public_path('ToZip'));
          foreach ($files as $key => $value) {
              $file = basename($value);
              $zip->addFile($value, $file);
          }
           
          $zip->close();
      }
      return response()->download(public_path($fileName));
    }
}

Make sure you have add some files in folder ToZip which is in public path.

Step 3 - Add Route

We will add route to web.php to tell where controller and method point to correct URL. 

Open file routes -> web.php

<?php
  
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
  
use App\Http\Controllers\ZipController;
  
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Web Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
| contains the "web" middleware group. Now create something great!
|
*/
  
Route::get('/zip', [ZipController::class, 'index']);

Step 4 - Run Laravel Server

To see the result we have to activate Laravel server and navigate to correct route link which we just implementation. But first, you may run following command to start server

php artisan serve

Then you can navigate your browser to http://localhost:8000/zip your file will download as Zip file.

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