Password Zip File In Php

Posted on Friday 7th June 2019

In PHP you can open and read ZIP archives, including ones with passwors through the use of ZipArchive, but there are scenarios where you may want to create an archive and add a password. This is not currently supported by ZipArchive but can be achieved by using a cli command executed by php.

Requrements

PHP
Linux / Unix based host
zip command

Code

<?php
    $fileName = "myfile.txt";
    $zipName = "myZip.zip"
    $password = 'mypassword';
    system("zip -P $password $zipName $fileName");