Gzipping files + dirs

[X-Istence]

Hi all,
i need a script that on the fly can gzip, all the files in a certain dir, and any subdirs, and make put them all in a gz file that gets put in ./, so the same dir that the PHP is executed in.

I need this so it can gzip my scripts on the fly ones i have updated them, and uploaded them so that people can start downloading them again.

Any help or scripts would be nice. So far i have done it, and it makes the files inside the gzip the same filename as the gzipped file. So "hello.gz" would contain "hello". So that is why i havnt found a way to gzip different files in one.

[michael]

I'd probably tarball it first, and then gzip the result.

[X-Istence]

yes, that would be okay, but how would i do that just using PHP? Zlib and all are installed, but i need PHP to tar/gzip it. I dont want to have to do it. I want to be able to upload the new files. Run that one PHP script to tar/gzip it all, and then save it in the same dir as that where the script was run.