Recently I had a need to gather a group of images, add a watermark, and zip them up so a user could download them. Instead of create all of these zip files each time anything is changed, I instead wrote a class to do this all for me.

This class requires Cana_Zip and Cana_Thumb

class myZip extends Cana_Zip {
  public function __construct($params = array()) {
    parent::__construct($params);
  }
  public function create($params = array()) {
    // here i queried our database to get a list of files.
    // you could also loop through a directory
    $files = array();

    // create the thumb object
    $thumb = new Cana_Thumb(array(
      'path'       => 'images/',
      'cache'     => 'imagecache/',
      'watermarkSrc'    => 'images/watermark.png',
      'watermark'    => true,
      'format'    => 'jpg'
    ));

    $zipedFiles = array();
    foreach ($files as $file) {
      // write the thumb
      $out = $thumb->writeThumb($file->image);
      // add the cached image path to the zip
      $zipedFiles[$file->image] = $out['file'];
    }

    // write out the zip file
    $out = $this->create($zipedFiles, array(
      'name' => 'myzip.zip',
      'destination' => 'zip/'
    ));
  }
}

Once our class is set up, we now need to use it.

// create the zip
$zip = new myZip(array(
  'destination' => './zip'
));
// give it to the user
header('Location: /zip/myzip.zip');