Laravel excel Class 'ZipArchive' not found

Question

I have laravel project with ability to upload data to mysql from .csv file using laravel-excel plugin.

When I try to upload data to mysql from .csv file, I get error "Class 'ZipArchive' not found". Can't understand what 'zip' has to do with it, if I use .csv I am using: VMware Debian server, PHP 7.1

Everything works fine on my PC, localhost.

Answer 1

This happens when you have not installed the zip-extension.

you can install it like

sudo apt-get install php7.1-zip

after installing make sure restart the server.

Hope this helps.