Windows zip file creation from system()

[pnj]

I'm running php 5 on Windows XP.  I'm wondering if there's a way to call Windows XP's integrated zip file creation utility from the command line.  The only place I can find this is in the XP context menu, but I imagine there must be a command.  I want to run it from a php script using the system() function.

system ("zip folder/*.* foo.zip"); // or something like that.

thanks,
pnj

[trq]

Do you have the [url=http://au3.php.net/zip]zip[/url] extension installed? Why not use that?

[pnj]

I was under the impression that the zip extension could only read zip files, not write them.  I see zip_open(), zip_read() and zip_close()... but nothing like zip_write()...

[trq]

Ive never used it but it looks to me like you could create zip files using [url=http://php.net/manual/en/function.ziparchive-open.php]ZipArchive::open[/url] and [url=http://au3.php.net/manual/en/function.ziparchive-addfile.php]ZipArchive::AddFile[/url], of course, I could be wrong.

[pnj]

Thanks, don't know how i missed the add function.  I'll give it a try.

On the original question about windows command line zip, any thoughts?

I guess more people are on *nix...

-p

[trq]

[quote]I guess more people are on *nix...[/quote]

Yeah sorry, winblows.