Installing PHP Zip Extension

I'm attempting to install the PHP Zip extension.

My server does not have external internet access, so I downloaded it myself from PECL: . I chose 1.10.2, the latest "stable" release, and transferred it to my server.

I ran:

pear install zip-1.10.2.tgz 

and added

extension=zip.so 

to php.ini as instructed. I can see that zip.so was created and placed in the right extension_dir folder as well. I restarted apache and then checked to see if it was loaded by running:

php -m 

Despite all of this, "zip" is still not in that list.

Am I missing a step or doing something wrong? I thought this should be really simple, and I'm starting to feel pretty dumb, haha.

Other probably important stuff:

CentOS Apache 2.2.3 PHP 5.2.16

11 Answers

This is how I installed it on my machine (ubuntu):

php 7:

sudo apt-get install php7.0-zip 

php 5:

sudo apt-get install php5-zip 

Edit:
Make sure to restart your server afterwards.

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart or sudo service nginx restart

PS: If you are using centOS, please check above cweiske's answer
But if you are using a Debian derivated OS, this solution should help you installing php zip extension.

You may have several php.ini files, one for CLI and one for apache. Run php --ini to see where the CLI ini location is.

for PHP 7.3 / Ubuntu

sudo apt install php7.3-zip 

for PHP 7.4

sudo apt install php7.4-zip 

Simply use sudo yum install php-zip

1 Step - Install a required extension

sudo apt-get install libz-dev libzip-dev -y 

2 Step - Install the PHP extension

pecl install zlib zip 

3 Step - Restart your Apache

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart 

If does not work you can check if the zip.ini is called in your phpinfo, to check if the zip.so was included.

For php 7.3 on ubuntu 16.04

sudo apt-get install php7.3-zip

The best way to install the Zip extension in php7.2 on CentOS would be as below:

1. Find the available extention by searching with yum command

   yum search zip

2. This will list all the zip packages. We need to look for the php7.2 zip package

3. Then if your php version is 7.2 then run the command

   yum install ea-php72-php-zip

This will definetly resolve your issue.

Cheers !!

On Amazon Linux 2 and PHP 7.4 I finally got PHP-ZIP to install and I hope it helps someone else - by the following (note the yum install command has extra common modules also included you may not need them all):

sudo yum -y install sudo yum -y install sudo yum -y install yum-utils sudo yum-config-manager --enable remi-php74 sudo yum update sudo yum install php php-cli php-fpm php-mysqlnd php-zip php-devel php-gd php-mcrypt php-mbstring php-curl php-xml php-pear php-bcmath php-json sudo pecl install zip php --modules sudo systemctl restart httpd 

If you use php5.6 then execute this:

sudo apt-get install php5.6-zip

The PHP5 version do not support in Ubuntu 18.04+ versions, so you have to do that configure manually from the source files. If you are using php-5.3.29,

# cd /usr/local/src/php-5.3.29 # ./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs --with-mysql=MySQL_LOCATION/mysql --prefix=/usr/local/apache/php --with-config-file-path=/usr/local/apache/php --disable-cgi --with-zlib --with-gettext --with-gdbm --with-curl --enable-zip --with-xml --with-json --enable-shmop # make # make install 

Restart the Apache server and check phpinfo function on the browser <?php echo phpinfo(); ?>

Note: Please change the MySQL_Location: --with-mysql=MySQL_LOCATION/mysql

I tried changing the repository list with:

bionic-security main universe bionic main restricted universe

But none of them seem to work, but I finally found a repository that works running the following command

add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

And then updating and installing normally the package using apt-get

As you can see it's installed at last.