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Ajay Yadav
Ajay Yadav

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Zip Pdf Files And Download In Laravel

#laravel #php #vue #webdev

In this post we'll see how to create a zip file and download it in laravel.
Let's start
create a controller

php artisan make:controller InvoiceController
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Now open InvoiceController and create a method downloadZip()

 <?php namespace App\Http\Controllers; use Illuminate\Http\Request; class InvoiceController extends Controller { public function downloadZip() { Storage::disk('local')->makeDirectory('tobedownload',$mode=0775); // zip store here $zip_file=storage_path('app/tobedownload/invoices.zip'); $zip = new \ZipArchive(); $zip->open($zip_file, \ZipArchive::CREATE | \ZipArchive::OVERWRITE); $path = storage_path('invoices'); // path to your pdf files $files = new \RecursiveIteratorIterator(new \RecursiveDirectoryIterator($path)); foreach ($files as $name => $file) { // We're skipping all subfolders if (!$file->isDir()) { $filePath = $file->getRealPath(); // extracting filename with substr/strlen $relativePath = substr($filePath, strlen($path) + 1); $zip->addFile($filePath, $relativePath); } } $zip->close(); $headers = array('Content-Type'=>'application/octet-stream',); $zip_new_name = "Invoice-".date("y-m-d-h-i-s").".zip"; return response()->download($zip_file,$zip_new_name,$headers); } }
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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']);
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And that's all... 🤗

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Juraj Chovan •

hi friend,
if I want download some file, then delete it, I can use command:

return response()->download($SomeFileName)->deleteFileAfterSend(true);
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but open question is:
if I want download some file, then delete it and then redirect Laravel application to some other page/route?
What is code for this case? Can you help me pls ...