How to gzip folder in Laravel project

Question

I want to compress folder and it's content in Laravel project into gzip archive with highest possible compression level.

storage_path().'myFolder'

It's not meant to be transferred over HTTP so please don't get confused with server response gzip compression.

I just want an archive but didn't find info whether Laravel has any tool for the prurpose, any ideas?

Gzip is a stream compression format, it has no concept of files or directories. You need to use an archive format like tar and gzip that, or use a combination format like Zipfile. — Sammitch, Nov 15 '18 at 17:24
/bin/bash ? `$ tar -zcf ./archive.tar.gz ./myFolder`. From php `shell_exec('tar -zcf [path_to]/archive.tar.gz [path_from]/myFolder')` — Николай Лубышев, Nov 15 '18 at 17:37

Namoshek · Answer 1 · 2018-11-17T07:24:43.040

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This doesn't seem to be a Laravel specific issue to me. For normal zip compression, there are Laravel packages available (i.e. zanysoft/laravel-zip), but for gzip you might want to have a look at the this answer. To me it doesn't look like it requires an own package for the job.

By the way, you'd use storage_path('myFolder') in favour of storage_path().'myFolder'. This will concatenate the paths properly.

edited Nov 17 '18 at 07:24

answered Nov 15 '18 at 17:24

Namoshek

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 28 '20 at 12:20

Here's a helper function for you.

if (!function_exists('gzip')) {
    function gzip($filename, $disk = 'local', $delete_original = false)
    {
        $disk = Storage::disk($disk);
        $data = $disk->get($filename);
        $out_file = "$filename.gz";

        $gzdata = gzencode($data, 9);
        $disk->put($out_file, $gzdata);
        $fp = fopen($disk->path($out_file), "w");
        $result = fwrite($fp, $gzdata);
        fclose($fp);

        if ($result && $delete_original) {
            $disk->delete($filename);
        }

        return $result > 0;

    }
}

Tested and working for me on laravel 7.x. Just make sure you have gzip compression enabled on your machine.

How to gzip folder in Laravel project

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