zipping files

[the_oliver]

Hello,

 

Im wondering if there is a way, through a php script, to create a zip file of the contents of a folder?

E.g. the web user would submit a form, and after a bit of validation, a zip file would be created, and a download forced.

 

How could would i go about creating the zip file through php?  (Im hosted on a Windows mashine)

 

Thanks for your thoughts.

[Smackie]

http://www.zend.com/zend/spotlight/creating-zip-files2.php  go there it talks about Zipping in php... just remember use http://www.google.com its your best friend

[corbin]

I had a lot of trouble with zipping stuff at first when I was trying to figure it out the other day, but once you figure out which functions to use, it's actually quite easy....  The following is something I used in a script the other day:

 

//$out was preset....
if(class_exists('ZipArchive')) {
					$zname = microtime();
					$zname = explode(" ", $zname);
					$zname = (int) $zname[1];
					$zname = $zname / (rand(1,10));
					$zip = new ZipArchive();

					if ($zip->open('includes/CTools/temp/zips/'.$zname, ZIPARCHIVE::CREATE)===TRUE) {
						$zip->addFromString("output.txt" . time(), $out);
						$zip->close();
						$gc = @file_get_contents('includes/CTools/temp/zips/'.$zname);
						if($gc) {
							ForceDownloadHeaders($filename . '.zip', strlen($gc));
							echo $gc;
							unset($gc);
							$zipped = true;
							exit;
						}
					}
				}