Creating a zip from a hosting account.

[Alex.]

i need to know if i can create a zip automaticaly online, so the code will grab a load of files from a directory and create a .zip file, which it would prefferibly store till the next time the script is run.

 

[Matthew.]

Check out this page:
http://uk2.php.net/zip

Contains a lot of information, pretty much everything you will need. I don't know much about the zip libraries or functions myself so that's as far as i can help advice wise without researching it further

Matt

 

[Alex.]

thanks for the info!

 

[RegisterRants]

I would personally use tar, etc. on a shell_exec() level, with a set filename, then serve that

Example:

shell_exec("tar c newfile.tar *");
header("Location: /path/to/newfile.tar");

 

[Alex.]

thanks, but I asked for Zip because by defualt, every windows pc can extract a zip file, whereas you need a program to unzip tar

thanks for your suggestion though

 

[RegisterRants]

Windows XP, unless Vista can (I just uninstalled it...BLOATWARE...so I can't tell) is the only OS that can, by default, parse ZIP files.

On some *NIX systems, you can do this:

shell_exec("zip newfile.zip *");
header("Location: /path/to/newfile.zip");