Created zip file contain folder structure using tar command in PHP

Question

I am trying to create a zip of all files in abc folder with the name filename.zip using following command in php like:

exec(tar -cvf filename.zip /home/public_html/uploads/abc/)

but the created zip has the folder structure home/public_html/uploads. Please help me to get rid of these folders.

Answer 1

exec("tar -cvf filename.zip -C /home/public_html/uploads/ abc/")

Note the space before 'abc/'. The -C switch tells tar to first change directory to /home/public_html/uploads and then compress 'abc' folder.

You could also start the command from '/home/public_html/uploads' and specify the absolute path for the output file like

chdir('/home/public_html')

exec("tar -cvf /full/path/to/filename.zip abc/")