README

#Zipper

This is a simple Wrapper around the ZipArchive methods with some handy functions.

##Installation

To install this package just require it in your composer.json with

"Chumper/Zipper": "dev-master"

This package also includes Laravel 4 support, to activate it add

'Chumper\Zipper\ZipperServiceProvider'

to the service providers in the app.php

You can then access Zipper with the Zipper alias.

##Simple example

$zipper = new \Chumper\Zipper\Zipper;

$zipper->make('test.zip')->folder('test')->add('composer.json');
$zipper-zip('test.zip')->folder('test')->add('composer.json','test');

$zipper->remove('composer.lock');

$zipper->folder('mySuperPackage')->add(
    array(
        'vendor',
        'composer.json'
    ),
);

$zipper->getFileContent('mySuperPackage/composer.json');

$zipper->make('test.zip')->extractTo('',array('mySuperPackage/composer.json'),Zipper::WHITELIST);

You can easily chain most functions, functions that are not chainable are getFileContent, close, extractTo and getStatus

The main reason i wrote this little package is the extractTo method since it allows you to be very flexible when extracting zips. So you can for example implement an update method which will just override the changed files.

$zipper->make('test.zip')->extractTo('public', array('vendor'), Zipper::BLACKLIST);

This will extract the test.zip into the public folder except the folder vendor inside the zip will not be extracted.

$zipper->make('test.zip')->extractTo('public', array('vendor'), Zipper::WHITELIST);

This will extract the test.zip into the public folder but only the folder vendor inside the zip will be extracted.

$zipper->make('test.zip')->folder('test')->extractTo('foo');

This will go into the folder test in the zip file and extract the content of the folder to the folder foo. This command is really nice to get just a part of the zip file.

##Functions

make($pathToFile)

create or open a zip archive; if the file does not exists it will create a new one. It will return the Zipper instance so you can chain easily

extractTo($path, array $files = array(), $method = Zipper::BLACKLIST)

Extracts the content of the zip archive to the specified location. You can specify an array or string of files that will be white listed or black listed based on the third parameter

getFileContent($filePath)

get the content of a file in the zip. This will return the content or false.

add($pathToAdd)

add a string or an array of files to the zip You can name files or folder, all files in the folder then will be added.

getStatus()

get the opening status of the zip as integer

remove($fileToRemove)

removes a single file or an array of files from the zip.

close()

closes the zip and writes all changes

folder($folder)

Sets the internal pointer to this folder

home()

Resets the folder pointer

zip($fileName)

USes the ZipRepository for file handling

##Development

May it is a goot idea to add other compress functions like rar, phar or bzip2 etc... Everything is setup for that, if you want just fork and develop further.

If you need other functions or got errors, please leave an issue on github.