pecl install zip

Trying to install zip using

pecl install zip

as a result of getting this error

ZipArchive not found

ended up giving me this error

Invalid tgz file.

In order to get zip.so installed I downloaded it manually from http://pecl.php.net/package/zip and then installed it manually.

cd /usr/src/
wget http://pecl.php.net/get/zip-1.10.2.tgz
tar -xvf zip-1.10.2.tgz
cd zip-1.10.2.tgz
phpize
./configure
make
make test
make install

After installing the module I added the extension line in the php.ini

extension=zip.so

In WHM the php.ini is located in /usr/local/lib/