Class 'ZipArchive' not found

[ahmednawazbutt]

Hi everyone, I hope you all be fine.I am having some trouble using this extension on my Yii2 Application.

Here is the error log:

**Class 'ZipArchive' not found**

 in /home/ahmednawaz/Projects/ProjectName/vendor/phpoffice/phpword/src/PhpWord/Shared/ZipArchive.php at line 134
     * @param int $flags The mode to use to open the archive
     * @return bool
     */
    public function open($filename, $flags = null)
    {
        $result = true;
        $this->filename = $filename;
 
        if (!$this->usePclzip) {
            $zip = new \ZipArchive();
            $result = $zip->open($this->filename, $flags);
 
            // Scrutizer will report the property numFiles does not exist
            // See https://github.com/scrutinizer-ci/php-analyzer/issues/190
            $this->numFiles = $zip->numFiles;
        } else {
            $zip = new \PclZip($this->filename);
            $this->tempDir = Settings::getTempDir();
            $this->numFiles = count($zip->listContent());

Here is what I put in my view file

<?php

use PhpOffice\PhpWord\PhpWord;

$phpWord = new PhpWord();

$section = $phpWord->addSection();
$section->addText(
    '"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, '
    . 'and is never the result of selfishness." '
    . '(Napoleon Hill)',
    array('name' => 'Tahoma', 'size' => 10)
    );

// Saving the document as OOXML file...
$objWriter = \PhpOffice\PhpWord\IOFactory::createWriter($phpWord, 'Word2007');
$objWriter->save('helloWorld.docx');

Here is what my controller action looks like

$model = $this->findModel($id);
        
        //  There is no such thing as rendereing here, I just want to see what happends with phpWord
        $this->render('test', ['model' => $model]);

[ahmednawazbutt]

May be this could be due to multiple ZipArchive classes (one in the core and the other in the extension. I have personally accessed the open method of phpword/src/shared/zipArchive class and tried to jump to \ZipArchive() and it leads straight to core API method, still I get the error even if the chain-links are correct.
I have no idea what is the issue.

Any help is appreciated.

[ahmednawazbutt]

The issue was resolved. All I had to do was:
\PhpOffice\PhpWord\Settings::setZipClass(Settings::PCLZIP); before processing file

Its working now.
Thanks to:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26643775/class-ziparchive-not-found-error-while-using-phpexcel

[virajkadam]

The issue was resolved. All I had to do was:
\PhpOffice\PhpWord\Settings::setZipClass(Settings::PCLZIP); before processing file

Its working now.
Thanks to:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26643775/class-ziparchive-not-found-error-while-using-phpexcel

WORKED LIKE A CHARM. Thank You so much Brother.
It worked for me for PHPWORD.

My Settings :

// importing settings via namespace
use PhpOffice\PhpWord\Settings;

// calling settings right above file generation. (As stated in this answer)
Settings::setZipClass(Settings::PCLZIP);

// Save file
echo write($phpWord, basename(__ FILE __, '.php'), $writers);

// ----------- OR ----------------------------------------

// just paste this part in Sample_Header.php as below.

Settings::loadConfig();

// put below line after loadConfig, as both loadConfig & setZipClass are functions of same settings class.
Settings::setZipClass(Settings::PCLZIP);

[lbermudezd]

Thank you!!! @ahmednawazbutt

[Andresalfaro7]

Thankyou very much! @virajkadam