≈On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Dennis Heck wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm looking for a solution for the following:
> 1) collecting data from a simple html form and send them to a php script
> 2) take the data and place them in a php-generated excel sheet
> 3) zip the excel sheet and password protect the zip file (standard
> encription will be sufficent, no AES needed)
> 4) send the zip file as an email attachment
> This kind of output is fixed, changing the output is not an option.
>
> I'm ok with building the excel sheet and sending the mail, but I'm still
> trying and error with the zip. Since I need password protection in the zip,
> I cannot use the php build in zip extension. I guess I will need to call ZIP
> on the shell. I'm aware I could first save the generated excel sheet to the
> filesystem and afterwards call the zip process on the file, putting the zip
> file also to the file system. But I wonder if there's an option to stream
> the data till they finally can be put to the multipart mail - without saving
> anything to the filesystem.
>
> Here is my first try, just a little modification of the example on proc_open
> in the php docu. To keep the test simple, I load a sample xls from the
> filesystem instead of generating from the php class and output it directly
> to the browser. The script works well except one point: the file contained
> in the zip will have no name an no file extension.
>
>header ('Content-type: application/zip');
>header ('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="download.zip"');
>
>$descriptorspec = array(
>0 => array("pipe", "r"),
> 1 => array("pipe", "w"),
> 2 => array("file", "error-output.txt", "a")
>);
>
>$dateiname = 'xyz.xls';
>$file = fread(fopen($dateiname, "r"), filesize($dateiname));
>
>$process = proc_open('zip -P 1234', $descriptorspec, $pipes);
>
>if (is_resource($process)) {
>
>fwrite($pipes[0], $file);
>fclose($pipes[0]);
>
>$zip = stream_get_contents($pipes[1]);
>fclose($pipes[1]);
>
>$return_value = proc_close($process);
>}
>
>echo $zip;
>?>
>
> So I look for an option to get the name and extension in the zipfile. Here I
> found named pipes as an option. Calling via shell, tested with a textfile in
> order to use less
>
>mkfifo xyz.txt
>less readme.txt > xyz.txt & zip output.zip -FI xyz.txt -P 1234
>rm xyz.txt
>
> Now I get a pw protected zip file containing xyz.txt. Now how can I combine
> both? How can I tell php to use the named pipe instead of stdin in
> proc_open? Or any other idea to get the file in the zip the correct name and
> extension.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Regards,
> Dennis
>
>
>
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I *think* all you need in the first paramter to proc_open is :
zip -P password - -
The first - is the zip file -- which will be send to stdout.
The second - is the input -- which you should pipe your spreadsheet into.
Good luck!
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