grandt/phpzipmerge

Merge and stream multiple Zip files on the fly.

ZipMerge

Combine and stream the contents of multiple existing Zip files, as a single file, without recompressing the data within., _(*1)

This is useful if you have often used static content that needs to be collected and sent to the client. With this you can pre-compress these packages, and assemble them on the fly, saving CPU cycles by not having to do the compression every time the files are requested., _(*2)

The contents of each Zip file added, can even be placed in separate sub folders., _(*3)

Installation

Import

Add this requirement to your composer.json file:, _(*4)

   "grandt/phpzipmerge": ">=1.0.4"

Composer

If you already have Composer installed, skip this part., _(*5)

Packagist, the main composer repository has a neat and very short guide., _(*6)

Or you can look at the guide at the Composer site., _(*7)

The easiest for first time users, is to have the composer installed in the same directory as your composer.json file, though there are better options., _(*8)

Run this from the command line:, _(*9)

php -r "readfile('https://getcomposer.org/installer');" | php

This will check your PHP installation, and download the composer.phar, which is the composer binary. This file is not needed on the server though., _(*10)

Once composer is installed you can create the composer.json file to import this package., _(*11)

{
    "require": {
        "grandt/phpzipmerge": ">=1.0.4",
        "php": ">=5.3.0"
    }
}

Followed by telling Composer to install the dependencies., _(*12)

php composer.phar install

this will download and place all dependencies defined in your composer.json file in the vendor directory., _(*13)

Finally, you include the autoload.php file in the new vendor directory., _(*14)

<?php
    require 'vendor/autoload.php';
    .
    .
    .