Help creating zip file on the fly

I am trying to create zip file on the fly without actually making a zip on the server but it is not working.

Here is what I have:

header('Content-type: application/zip');
$filepath = "$files/files/$thefile";
$zip = new ZipArchive();
$zip->addFile($filepath, 'filename.swf');
echo $filepath;
echo $zip->file();

Code (markup):

which only makes an ascii file with the text of $filepath in it

Can some one enlighten me as to what I am doing wrong?


Any help is greatly appreciated!

 

have you added the zip extension.
i think you are missing something here. Refer to this article

 

Yeah I read that but it only talks about making the zip file on the server. I'm just trying to create it on the fly for download only.

 

You can use phpclass for zipfile