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    copied!<p>This maybe a silly question to most, but I have the following folder, which I want to zip.</p> <pre><code>FolderI Folder1 Folder2 Folder3 .. .. FolderN </code></pre> <p>Now, zipping up <code>FolderI</code> into a <code>zipFile.zip</code> is pretty easy because of so many resources online, specially here! But, I want to create <code>zipFile.zip</code>, containing <code>Folder1...FolderN</code>, such that when the file is unzipped, it would directly populate the current directory with <code>Folder1...FolderN</code>,instead of creating <code>FolderI</code>, which has <code>Folder1...FolderN</code> in it.</p> <p>Some of the things I've been trying are:</p> <pre><code>$zip = new ZipArchive(); // open archive if ($zip-&gt;open('my-archive.zip', ZIPARCHIVE::CREATE) !== TRUE) { die ("Could not open archive"); } // initialize an iterator // pass it the directory to be processed $iterator = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveDirectoryIterator("FolderI/")); // iterate over the directory // add each file found to the archive foreach ($iterator as $key=&gt;$value) { $zip-&gt;addFile(realpath($key), $key) or die ("ERROR: Could not add file: $key"); } // close and save archive $zip-&gt;close(); </code></pre> <p>This was picked up from <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3828385/compress-archive-folder-using-php-script">compress/archive folder using php script</a> and I tried to change it around. Didn't work though - <em>The FolderI is still zipped. But, when I unzip the <code>my-archive.zip</code>, I get a <code>FolderI</code> and then <code>Folder1..FolderN</code> inside it</em>. I also saw code from @Alix somewhere here, which did the same thing. But, didn't really follow much.</p> <p>Any kind of help would be great. If not the code, at least point me to the right direction. </p> <p>Thanks</p> <p>****Anyone here knows how to do this? ****</p> <p>@Mods and Admins: Is the solution too simple or PHP can't do this at all?</p>
 

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