How to create zip file from a large folder using Codeigniter and PHP?

Question

I'm trying to create zip file from a large folder which size almost 2GB. My code is working well on the localhost but it's not working on the server(Cpanel). In server, it's creating a zip file which size is only 103 MB out of 2GB. According to my strategy, first of all, I'm creating a backup folder recursively named "system_backup". And the backup folder is creating well without any problem. The next is, to create the zip file of 'system_backup' folder by calling the function ZipData and stored it to another folder. In this time, it's not creating the zip file properly.

After that, the function rrmdir will be called. And it will delete the 'system_backup' folder recursively. And the deletion is not working properly as well. And, in localhost, it works well.

Then, when I'm trying to download the created zip file by the function download_file , it also not download properly. It's downloaded as a broken zip file. And, in localhost, it also works well.

I have already checked the read and write permission of folders and files.

The code is given below:-

public function backup_app(){
    //Backup System
    ini_set('memory_limit', '-1');
    set_time_limit(0);
    $this->recurse_copy(FCPATH,'system_backup');

    $backup_name = 'Customs-system-backup-on_'. date("Y-m-d-H-i-s") .'.zip';
    $path   = FCPATH.'system_backup';
    $destination = FCPATH.'bdCustomsBackup/'.$backup_name;
    $this->zipData($path, $destination);

    //Delete directory
    $this->rrmdir($path);

    $message = "Application Backup on ".date("Y-m-d-H-i-s");
    $this->submit_log($message);

    echo 1;
}

function zipData($source, $destination) {
    if (extension_loaded('zip')) {
        if (file_exists($source)) {
            $zip = new ZipArchive();
            if ($zip->open($destination, ZIPARCHIVE::CREATE)) {
                $source = realpath($source);
                if (is_dir($source)) {
                    $iterator = new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($source);
                    // skip dot files while iterating 
                    $iterator->setFlags(RecursiveDirectoryIterator::SKIP_DOTS);
                    $files = new RecursiveIteratorIterator($iterator, RecursiveIteratorIterator::SELF_FIRST);
                    $counter = 1;
                    foreach ($files as $file) {
                        $file = realpath($file);
                        if (is_dir($file)) {
                            $zip->addEmptyDir(str_replace($source . '/', 'system_backup/', $file . '/'));
                        } else if (is_file($file)) {                                
                            $zip->addFromString(str_replace($source . '/', 'system_backup/', $file), file_get_contents($file));
                        }
                    }
                } else if (is_file($source)) {
                    $zip->addFromString(basename($source), file_get_contents($source));
                }
            }
            return $zip->close();
        }
    }
    return false;
}

public function recurse_copy($src,$dst) { 
    $dir = opendir($src);
    @mkdir($dst); 
    while(false !== ( $file = readdir($dir)) ) {
        if (( $file != '.' ) && ( $file != '..' ) && ( $file != $dst ) && ( $file != "bdCustomsBackup" )) { 
            if ( is_dir($src . '/' . $file) ) { 
                $this->recurse_copy($src . '/' . $file, $dst . '/' . $file); 
            } 
            else { 
                copy($src . '/' . $file,$dst . '/' . $file); 
            } 
        } 
    } 
    closedir($dir); 
}

public function rrmdir($src) {
    $dir = opendir($src);
    while(false !== ( $file = readdir($dir)) ) {
        if (( $file != '.' ) && ( $file != '..' )) {
            $full = $src . '/' . $file;
            if ( is_dir($full) ) {
                $this->rrmdir($full);
            }
            else {
                unlink($full);
            }
        }
    }
    closedir($dir);
    rmdir($src);
}

public function download_file($file){
    $message = "Download ".$file." on ".date("Y-m-d-H-i-s");
    $this->submit_log($message);

    $path = FCPATH.'bdCustomsBackup/'.$file;

    $this->load->helper('download_helper');
    force_download($file, $path);
}

Here is the custom download_helper :-

<?php  if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

if ( ! function_exists('force_download'))
{
    function force_download($filename = '', $file = '')
    {
        if ($filename == '' OR $file == '')
        {
            return FALSE;
        }

        // Try to determine if the filename includes a file extension.
        // We need it in order to set the MIME type
        if (FALSE === strpos($filename, '.'))
        {
            return FALSE;
        }

        // Grab the file extension
        $x = explode('.', $filename);
        $extension = end($x);

        // Load the mime types
        @include(APPPATH.'config/mimes'.EXT);

        // Set a default mime if we can't find it
        if ( ! isset($mimes[$extension]))
        {
            $mime = 'application/octet-stream';
        }
        else
        {
            $mime = (is_array($mimes[$extension])) ? $mimes[$extension][0] : $mimes[$extension];
        }

        // Generate the server headers
        if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], "MSIE") !== FALSE)
        {
            header('Content-Type: "'.$mime.'"');
            header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$filename.'"');
            header('Expires: 0');
            header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
            header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
            header('Pragma: public');
            header("Content-Length: ".filesize($file));
        }
        else
        {
            header('Content-Type: "'.$mime.'"');
            header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$filename.'"');
            header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
            header('Expires: 0');
            header('Pragma: no-cache');
            header("Content-Length: ".filesize($file));
        }

        readfile_chunked($file);
        die;
    }
}

if ( ! function_exists('readfile_chunked'))
{
    function readfile_chunked($file, $retbytes=TRUE)
    {
       $chunksize = 1 * (1024 * 1024);
       $buffer = '';
       $cnt =0;

       $handle = fopen($file, 'r');
       if ($handle === FALSE)
       {
           return FALSE;
       }

       while (!feof($handle))
       {
           $buffer = fread($handle, $chunksize);
           echo $buffer;
           ob_flush();
           flush();

           if ($retbytes)
           {
               $cnt += strlen($buffer);
           }
       }

       $status = fclose($handle);

       if ($retbytes AND $status)
       {
           return $cnt;
       }

       return $status;
    }
}

/* End of file download_helper.php */
/* Location: ./application/helpers/download_helper.php */

Answer 1

The below code is using PHP:

    $zip = new ZipArchive;
        if ($zip->open('test_new.zip', ZipArchive::CREATE) === TRUE)
        {
            // Add files to the zip file
            $zip->addFile('test.txt');
            $zip->addFile('test.pdf');

            // Add random.txt file to zip and rename it to newfile.txt
            $zip->addFile('random.txt', 'newfile.txt');

            // Add a file new.txt file to zip using the text specified
            $zip->addFromString('new.txt', 'text to be added to the new.txt file');

            // All files are added, so close the zip file.
            $zip->close();
        }

Explanation of code

Line 1 creates an object of the ZipArchive class

Line 2 opens a file with filename as test_new.zip so that we can add files to it. The flag ZipArchive::CREATE specifies that we want to create a new zip file

Lines 5 & 6 are used to add files to the zip file

Line 9 is used to add a file with name random.txt to the zip file and rename it in the zipfile as newfile.txt

Line 12 is used to add a new file new.txt with contents of the file as 'text to be added to the new.txt file'

Line 15 closes and saves the changes to the zip file

Note: Sometimes there can be issues when using relative paths for files. If there are any issues using paths then we can also use absolute paths for files

Overwrite an existing zip file

If you want to overwrite an existing zip file then we can use code similar to following. The flag ZipArchive::OVERWRITE overwrites the existing zip file.

            $zip = new ZipArchive;
            if ($zip->open('test_overwrite.zip', ZipArchive::OVERWRITE) === TRUE)
            {
                // Add file to the zip file
                $zip->addFile('test.txt');
                $zip->addFile('test.pdf');

                // All files are added, so close the zip file.
                $zip->close();
            }

Explanation of code

This code will create a file test_overwrite.zip if it already exists the file will be overwritten with this new file

Create a new zip file and add files to be inside a folder

            $zip = new ZipArchive;
            if ($zip->open('test_folder.zip', ZipArchive::CREATE) === TRUE)
            {
                // Add files to the zip file inside demo_folder
                $zip->addFile('text.txt', 'demo_folder/test.txt');
                $zip->addFile('test.pdf', 'demo_folder/test.pdf');

                // Add random.txt file to zip and rename it to newfile.txt and store in demo_folder
                $zip->addFile('random.txt', 'demo_folder/newfile.txt');

                // Add a file demo_folder/new.txt file to zip using the text specified
                $zip->addFromString('demo_folder/new.txt', 'text to be added to the new.txt file');

                // All files are added, so close the zip file.
                $zip->close();
            }

Explanation of code

The above code will add different files inside the zip file to be inside a folder demo_folder

The 2nd parameter to addfile function can be used to store the file in a new folder

The 1st parameter in the addFromString function can be used to store the file in a new folder

Create a new zip file and move the files to be in different folders

            $zip = new ZipArchive;
            if ($zip->open('test_folder_change.zip', ZipArchive::CREATE) === TRUE)
            {
                // Add files to the zip file
                $zip->addFile('text.txt', 'demo_folder/test.txt');
                $zip->addFile('test.pdf', 'demo_folder1/test.pdf');

                // All files are added, so close the zip file.
                $zip->close();
            }

Explanation of code

We store the file test.txt into demo_folder and test.pdf into demo_folder1

Create a zip file with all files from a directory

                $zip = new ZipArchive;
                if ($zip->open('test_dir.zip', ZipArchive::OVERWRITE) === TRUE)
                {
                    if ($handle = opendir('demo_folder'))
                    {
                        // Add all files inside the directory
                        while (false !== ($entry = readdir($handle)))
                        {
                            if ($entry != "." && $entry != ".." && !is_dir('demo_folder/' . $entry))
                            {
                                $zip->addFile('demo_folder/' . $entry);
                            }
                        }
                        closedir($handle);
                    }

                    $zip->close();
                }

Explanation of code

Lines 5-16 opens a directory and creates a zip file with all files within that directory

Line 5 opens the directory

Line 7 gets the name of each file in the dir

Line 9 skips the “.” and “..” and any other directories

Line 11 adds the file into the zip file

Line 14 closes the directory

Line 17 closes the zip file