In this article, we will see laravel 9 create a zip file and download it. Laravel provides ZipArchive class for creating zip files in laravel 9. I will give you examples step by step of how to create a zip file from a folder and download it in the laravel 9 application. we will create a zip file using the zip archive class in PHP laravel 9 application.

    So, let's see how to create zip file and download in laravel 9, ziparchive laravel 9, create zip file in laravel 9, create a zip file from a folder and download in laravel 9, create zip file using ziparchive in laravel 9.

    In this step, we will create a route in the web.php file

<?php
  
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;

use App\Http\Controllers\ZipArchiveController;
  
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Web Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
| contains the "web" middleware group. Now create something great!
|
*/
  
Route::get('download-zip', [ZipArchiveController::class, 'downloadZip']);

    Now, create a new controller name as ZipArchiveController.

    app/Http/Controllers/ZipArchiveController.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use ZipArchive;

class ZipArchiveController extends Controller
{
    public function downloadZip()
    {                                
        $zip = new ZipArchive;

        $fileName = 'Example.zip';

        if ($zip->open(public_path($fileName), ZipArchive::CREATE) === TRUE)
        {
            $files = \File::files(public_path('Zip_Example'));

            foreach ($files as $key => $value) {
                $file = basename($value);
                $zip->addFile($value, $file);
            }
             
            $zip->close();
        }

        return response()->download(public_path($fileName));
    }
}

    Note: I have created a Zip_Example folder in the public folder and added some images. So, you need to also create one folder and add some files also.

    Output:

http://localhost:8000/download-zip

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