Creating ZIP files on the fly using PHP and gzip

Anyone know how to do this?

[rycrostud]

Hi,

I'm looking into ways of creating ZIP files on my server using gzip. There seems to be lots of information on streaming and compressing web pages before they're served to the browser but not much on how to simply take file "a.html" and create a compressed one "a.gz".

It's for a file sharing utility. Once users have uploaded a file I want the server to automatically compress it to save space.

Any hints or good tutorials greatly appreciated.

[hakre]

hi rycrostud,

just use gzip -h to get the help of gzip. you can use shellexec in php to start gzip in your website. for your taks this might suit:

gzip -c file >file.zip
(this won't delete file)

or
gzip -S .zip file
(this will delete the input file)

hope this helps.

[rycrostud]

Hi hakre,

Thanks for the tips. After a bit of searching I've found a very easy to use class on the Zend [zend.com] web site.

It works perfectly and with a bit of modification it will do exactly what I require.