How to Enable ZIP Extension in XAMPP

How to Enable ZIP Extension in XAMPP – The zip extension in PHP is one of the important components that you must activate, especially if you use native PHP, WordPress, Laravel, CodeIgniter or other PHP frameworks. Without the zip extension, many important processes cannot run normally. Such as extracting files, installing plugins, updating CMS, and running the composer install command. As a result, web applications often experience errors. In this tutorial, we will discuss how to enable the zip extension in xampp easily and quickly.

Use the Latest Version of XAMPP

Before going into the main tutorial, we highly recommend you to use the latest version of xampp. The latest version of xampp generally supports the latest version of php, has more stable performance and minimal bugs. If you haven’t installed it yet, please follow the tutorial how to install the latest xampp. So that all configurations run smoothly and according to the tutorial below.

How to Enable ZIP Extension in XAMPP

1. Please open it Disk (C :) First.
2. Then open the folder xampp.
3. Open the folder again php.
4. Scroll down until you find the file php.ini.
5. If you have found it, right click the file php.ini.
6. Then click Edit in notebook.
7. Until this step, press ctrl+f on your keyboard.
8. Then type extension=zip.
9. And press Entering.
10. Later you will find a line ;extension=zip.
11. Please delete semicolon which is located at the beginning of the line.
12. Until it becomes extension=zip.
13. After that, press ctrl+s to save changes.

NOTES:

• If before following this tutorial Apache in the XAMPP control panel is already in the starting state, then you must restart Apache (stop then start again).

Additional information

If you don’t activate the zip extension on xampp and then use our web-based application source code, one of the features that will experience an error is data import. Therefore, it is very important to follow this tutorial when using web application source code that requires the zip extension requirement. By activating the zip extension, the web application you use will be more optimal and free from errors.