Ability to use PHPWord with out ZipArchive

[hskrtich]

it would be nice to be able to use PHPWord with out needing ZipArchive. PHPExcel does this by using the PCLZip library.

[hskrtich]

I hope to be able to work on this some time this week.

[ivanlanin]

Fortunately, all servers that I've been dealing with provide php_zip. But, I since the tag line of PHPWord is a pure PHP library for reading and writing Word files, I think it will be good if we can also use a pure PHP compression utility :)

[hskrtich]

Yea, all of our servers dont have php_zip, so I had to hack in an alternative. Its very nice to not have PHPWord dependent on php_zip.

[ivanlanin]

I consider myself lucky, then :) By the way, I think we should put the php_zip requirement in the README.

[Progi1984]

@bskrtich If you want PHPExcel use PCLZip for ZipEngine (https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPExcel/tree/develop/Classes/PHPExcel/Shared/PCLZip).

But the best part in PHPExcel is the opportunity of change the ZIP Engine :

• https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPExcel/blob/develop/Classes/PHPExcel/Settings.php#L41
• https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPExcel/blob/develop/Classes/PHPExcel/Settings.php#L115

[ivanlanin]

I think PHPWord\Settings is also where we should put the setting for #103 :)

[Progi1984]

@ivanlanin Affirmative :)

[hskrtich]

FYI I started on this already and I hope to have it done tomorrow.

[ivanlanin]

Wow. Cool! Please create some unit tests for that since we're very close to 100% code coverage :) Travis said we're 91.31% now (4687/5133).

[hskrtich]

Ok the main code is done. Does someone mind doing a sanity check on my code before I write the unit tests for this?

[ivanlanin]

I'll check.

[ivanlanin]

I've submitted a pull request. Please review.

[ivanlanin]

Resolved by #140 and #185 merge.

[ghost]

Yea, all of our servers dont have php_zip, so I had to hack in an alternative.

@bskrtich, how could it be so? Which OS and which PHP version do you use?