Cannot instantiate non-existent class

[Lauxa]

I am hosted on GoDaddy (Linux) and I am trying to use the ZipArchive php classes. I called GoDaddy technical support and asked if they supported the ZipArchive classes and they said yes. I cannot get it to work; I am down to a single line of code in a test file:

<?php $zip = new ZipArchive; ?>

Which fails with the following error:

Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: ziparchive in /home/content/m/o/o/mooneleaf/html/flashcards/test.php on line 1

Does anyone know what can be causing this error? It works on my local server (xampp on Windows). GoDaddy says that if I can present evidence that it is an error on their servers, they will look into it. Also, I checked some config file (sorry don't remember the name, it is the web form...) and it says that zip support is enabled on my account... does that mean the ZipArchive libraries should be working?

Thanks for any answers or tips on how to proceed!

[ak1dnar]

Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: ziparchive in /home/content/m/o/o/mooneleaf/html/flashcards/test.php on line 1

Is this ziparchive class on "test.php" or in another file?

[Lauxa]

Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: ziparchive in /home/content/m/o/o/mooneleaf/html/flashcards/test.php on line 1

Is this ziparchive class on "test.php" or in another file?

The ZipArchive class documentation is here:
http://www.php.net/zip

[code green]

The ZipArchive class documentation is here

Then go and read it.
The error seems to indicate that you have not included the file that contains this class you are using.
That is what alaxrand was trying to determine, but you chose not to answer.

[Motoma]

ZipArchive is a PECL extension, the most likely reason for receiving this error is that the extension is not installed on your server.

[Lauxa]

ZipArchive is a PECL extension, the most likely reason for receiving this error is that the extension is not installed on your server.

Thanks, Montoma, that's what I was thinking, too. I've sent another email to GoDaddy asking for confirmation that the ZipArchive is indeed supported on their servers and asking them to check that it is working correctly.

Does anyone know what it means that zip support is enabled? I see this when I run <? phpinfo(); ?> from a file on the server. You can see the full result at http://mooneleaf.com/flashcards/test2.php

Finally, does anyone have advice on how to extract zip files without the ZipArchive classes? I am not particularly attached to this method other than that I was able to get it working locally pretty quickly.

TIA for any help!!