Zipping uploaded files

[Anon]

Is there anyway of zipping uploaded files using PHP?

When the user uploads the file I would like to zip the file automatically and then delete the file which was uploaded keeping of course the zipped file.

Any help please.

Thanks in advance.

[khaine]

What setup are you using??

[Anon]

Linux, Apache etc.

I suppose I could use gzip, but I am not sure what the overhead would be on the server.

I also want to update a database with the filename of the file which gzip creates. Apart from checking to see if the file exists after gzip has completed, is there anyway of responding to a return value which gzip may return?

Any help would be appreciated.

[khaine]

if you use the system command it will return false if it fails.