Making zip/tar out of a folder, files sub-f

kikki

Hi,
Is there any nice way to make zip/tar out of a folder with files in it?

Thaks in advance!

Weedpacket

Depends. The answer to your question could be yes, could be no. Need more info. Where is this "folder"? Do you have access to it? Whatever, you probably don't want a "yes" or "no" answer to your "yes" or "no" question, do you?

kikki

Originally posted by Weedpacket
Depends. The answer to your question could be yes, could be no. Need more info. Where is this "folder"? Do you have access to it? Whatever, you probably don't want a "yes" or "no" answer to your "yes" or "no" question, do you?

yes, I do have full access to this folder(who would try to tar/zip a folder which is located on someone elses server? maybe it's because of my unclear question(sorry).. 🙁). Yes, I do have full access to these folders, I'd like to know how to zip/tar and unzip/untar the selected folder.. 🙂

thanks

Weedpacket

PHP has Zip and Zlib extensions available (Zip is read only, but see the user notes on the [man]zip[/man] manual page).

Simpler would be to use the server's own utilities via the shell. Depending on your server you may or may not have the utilities installed. Unix-based servers will, Windows-based ones may not.

kikki

Originally posted by Weedpacket
PHP has Zip and Zlib extensions available (Zip is read only, but see the user notes on the [man]zip[/man] manual page).

Simpler would be to use the server's own utilities via the shell. Depending on your server you may or may not have the utilities installed. Unix-based servers will, Windows-based ones may not.

My server is running on Linux, so of course I use server utilities, but I was wondering if php got nice zip/unzip tar/untar functions..

Php manuals shows how to unzip, or view the contents from zip, thanks, but I also want to know how to zip/tar any files using php.

edit:
I couldn't run the unzip of zip function...
says: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: zip_open()

so I found following article, but could someone explain me this pls?

You need to use the ZZIPlib library and the --with-zip=[DIR] option when compiling php.

Check the man at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.zip.php