For writing, PHPExcel provides PCLZip as an alternative to ZipArchive. You can configure it for use by calling
PHPExcel_Settings::setZipClass(PHPExcel_Settings::PCLZIP);
But if you want to read any of the files of the zip file format (for example, xlsx, ods), you will need the extension of the extension of the PHP zip archive
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1.8.0, PCLZIP ,