Create Zip File and download in Laravel(without using any packages)

First of all we will create a controller :

php artisan make:controller InvoiceController

Now open InvoiceController and create a method downloadZip()

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class InvoiceController extends Controller
{
  public function downloadInvoicesZip(){
  
      $directory = 'invoices';
      $zipFileName = "Invoice-" . date("y-m-d-h-i-s") . ".zip";
      $zipFilePath = storage_path("app/{$directory}/invoice.zip");
      $sourcePath = storage_path('invoice');
      
      // Ensure the directory exists
      Storage::disk('local')->makeDirectory($directory, 0775);
  
      // Create and open zip archive
      $zip = new ZipArchive();
      if ($zip->open($zipFilePath, ZipArchive::CREATE | ZipArchive::OVERWRITE) === true) {
          $files = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($sourcePath));
          
          foreach ($files as $file) {
              if (!$file->isDir()) {
                  $filePath = $file->getRealPath();
                  $relativePath = substr($filePath, strlen($sourcePath) + 1);
                  $zip->addFile($filePath, $relativePath);
              }
          }
          $zip->close();
      } else {
          return response()->json(['error' => 'Failed to create ZIP archive'], 500);
      }

    return Response::download($zipFilePath, $zipFileName, ['Content-Type' => 'application/octet-stream']);
  }
}

Here we are using ZipArchive() class , you can read more about this on this link

Now create a route, open web.php

//web.php
use App\Http\Controllers\InvoiceController;

Route::get('/invoice-download',[InvoiceController::class, 'downloadZip']);

And that’s it… 🤗

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