Re: PHP File Compression

From: Manuel Lemos (mlemos_at_acm.org)
Date: 10/11/04 

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 16:47:27 -0300

Hello,

On 10/11/2004 12:10 PM, Jason wrote:
> From what I can tell, the PHP libraries allow you to compress a block
> of data. I was wondering if anybody came across a library (or
> extension) that let you create a zip, tar/bzip (or something similar),
> hell, even a .cab of a list of files.
>
> I would like to provide a screen to package up a set of files to
> download, compress them and deliver them as one compressed package.
> Rolling my own "wrapper" around the PHP libraries doesn't seem like much
> of an option since I would have to write client-side utilities to
> uncompress whatever I put together.
>
> I am trying hard to keep my application cross-platform, but am willing
> to give that up since delivering documents is an important part of the
> document management system I'm trying to put together.

You may want to take a look at these classes meant for that purpose:

http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/class/42.html 

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