This is a quick post on the topic of moving zip files from server to server using Ajax. Recently, I have worked on a similar task for one of my client’s websites. It may be helpful for someone so I decided to write a post on it.

For this article, I am assuming you have a submit button and you need to fetch a zip file from another server. Let’s say the server path for a zip file is http://example.com/archieves/test.zip.

Place the below code in your file. In this file, we are giving an Ajax call on the clicking of a button. To the Ajax file, we send a source path of a zip file.

<input type="button" class="submit" value="Submit">
 
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function() {
        $('body').on('click', '.submit', function() {
            $.ajax({
                type: 'POST',
                url: 'ajax.php',
                data: {'source' : 'http://example.com/archieves/test.zip'},
                success:function(response) {
                    alert(response);
                }
            });
        });
    });
</script>

Next, in the ajax.php file, we write actual code to move the zip file from server to server. Below is the code in the ajax.php file.

<?php
$arr_file = explode("/", $_POST['source']);
$filename = end($arr_file);
 
file_put_contents($filename, file_get_contents($_POST['source']));
 
echo 'success';
?>

That’s It. I hope you understand how to move a zip file from server to server using Ajax. If you have any questions or suggestions please leave a comment below. Please read our related articles Ajax File Upload With PHP And jQuery and Drag And Drop File Upload Using JavaScript And PHP.

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