Resolved PHP8 Missing Zip Extension

[owen0003]

First, thank you for your service, and for making PHP8 available relatively early.
Although this has been reported in another thread, there are multiple problems in that thread and I wanted to call this one out on its own. The zip extension is missing from PHP8. There is no opportunity to select it in DirectAdmin, although it allows the selection of zip in earlier PHP versions.
extension_loaded('zip') returns false
class_exists('ZipArchive') returns false
This is a critical function for me.
I am not in a huge hurry to upgrade to PHP8, so I have returned to PHP7.3 for now. However, if this problem is fixed, I would be interested in trying 8 again.

 

[spacresx]

someone else has experienced problems with php 8 also.
no zip and no imagick options they tried bz2 as a zip option,
but that dont work for compressed wordpress themes and plugins.
so they to had to switch back to php 7.3

 

[garrettroyce]

added this to my todo list. just waiting for admin approval.

 

[garrettroyce]

https://x10hosting.com/community/threads/php-updates.208555/

 

[owen0003]

Thanks, it all looks like it's working nicely now. I would close the thread if I could figure out how to do it, but I don't.