“ZipArchive class is missing on your server.”

Re-submitting this because it keeps coming up but is never actually addressed.

I am running on a local Mac server. The suggestions for how to install zip for Mac Apache/PHP are to install the version of PHP that I already have installed, since it’s supposed to be included by default. In fact, checking PHPInfo does list “ZIP-based phar archives – enabled” under Phar archive support, suggesting that ZIP compression is ALREADY enabled in the installed and configured version of PHP on my local server (otherwise how would it be usable for Phar archives?).

Furthermore, of course both gzip and bzip are enabled, as is pretty standard, so zip isn’t even the only option for compressing files. Furthermore, text exports from WordPress are likely to be reasonably small (or trivially small) even before compression, so it would seem that compression would likely be optional (though certainly a desirable option). It would suffice to save the text files into a new folder.

Thus, this adherence apparently to some very specific zip extension as the only possible way of exporting files is a serious drawback of this plugin that makes it unusable apparently for a fairly considerable proportion of potential users, for what I assess as no very good reason – it would be entirely possible to also support gzip or bzip, or make compression optional in the first place. (Plus, it’s also possible that it’s just missing the manner in which zip capability is being provided on many servers, since I can’t figure how Phar would support zip without zip being present.)

No, I won’t be following up over and over, so if you want to ignore this too and close it without any further consideration as you’ve closed all previous instances of this issue being reported, that’s your business. Regardless, I will investigate alternative plugins, and failing that I’ll just cobble together some SQL query to export things manually, since I certainly don’t have time for you to address this in your plugin. I’m just letting you know WHY I won’t be using your plugin.