zipping

[mkarabulut]

hello,
this is my second trial. I believe someone can show a way to cope with it,but still he/she hasn't encountered my question, maybe this is the time... Anyway...

My question is about zipping content of a directory to a single zip file. There are some classes to perform zip processes, but I am wondering to handle it by exec function via system commands.

Your help is really appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

[stuartc1]

You could try using the function Passthru() this will let you use execution commands.

use it like this:
Passthru(commandhere, returnvariablehere);

good luck...

[mkarabulut]

Hello,
I couldn't manage to generate a tar.gz file. here is my code
<?
echo system("tar -czvf xxx.tar.gz .",$ret);

if (is_array($ret ))
{ foreach ($ret as $v)
echo "$v<br>";
}
else
echo "Here is=$ret" ;
?>

And only this line is written in browser window:
Here is ret=127

No tar.gz file is existing, I set the directory permissions read,write,execute enable (777). What does 127 means ? And why it didn't generate the file, what is wrong ?

[mkarabulut]

By the way I saw something called safe mode that can restrict exec,system functions. Could my failure be related with safe mode ?

[Anon]

127 is the return code tar sent back. No, I don't know what it means, either. Maybe its man page will say. Does your command work from the command line when you su to the webserver's user account?

Consider trying the backtick and grabbing the file yourself:

$ret=tar -cz *; //Not every file/directory contains a '.'...

And then fwrite() $ret to wherever you want to store it.

Just a thought.