Zip a folder Using PHP and FTP only

Do you ever face an issue to move site from one server to another and your client only provided you FTP login. If your answer is  “Yes” continue reading.

I recently working with a picky clients he is very security concerned and he is not interested to provide me his server login. He only provided me the FTP login. I want tranfer site files one his new server from old one.

I manage this via this code in php. I create a php file with this code and run this code via browser and ‘tada’ i can see a zip file with all files ziped I juts downloaded it and move to new server and extracted tehre uisng the file manager that already have.

<? 
// increase script timeout value 
ini_set("max_execution_time", 300); 
// create object 
$zip = new ZipArchive(); 
// open archive 
if ($zip->open("my-archive.zip", ZIPARCHIVE::CREATE) !== TRUE) { 
die ("Could not open archive"); 
} 
// initialize an iterator 
// pass it the directory to be processed 
$iterator = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveDirectoryIterator("vantage/")); 
// iterate over the directory 
// add each file found to the archive 
foreach ($iterator as $key=>$value) { 
$zip->addFile(realpath($key), $key) or die ("ERROR: Could not add file: $key"); 
} 
// close and save archive 
$zip->close(); 
echo "Archive created successfully."; 
?>