Zipping files from a PHP Script

[Anon]

Hello,

I'm trying to create a PHP script that will take user-submitted data from a database and place it into a nice HTML file. I've gotten this done, but my problem is figuring out how to zip the HTML file (with a few images) into a *.zip archive.

How can I do this?

I've tried running zip commands through exec();, shell_exec(); and through backtick operators, but I still haven't had any sucess. I don't know if my command is invalid either because I never receive any errors. Here are some of the zip commands I've tried:

<i>"zip yeah -j /home/leapingfrog/www/arc7/index.php"

"zip -j /home/leapingfrog/www/arcadmin/ttrctr/admin/zipfile /home/leapingfrog/www/arcadmin/ttrctr/admin/zipped_index.html"

"zip /home/leapingfrog/www/arcadmin/ttrctr/admin/zipfile /home/leapingfrog/www/arcadmin/ttrctr/admin/zipped_index.html"

"zip zipfile zipped_index.html"</i>

I haven't had any sucess with any of these. After the command is run, I can't find a single zip file on my server.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Andrew

[Anon]

Try this..:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.zip.php

[Anon]

Thanks Andre, but I saw this already too. These zip functions are only for reading zip files and not creating them.

Any other ideas?

[Anon]

on Unix/Linux you can always use a shell command to call gzip

$newname=gzip $filename;