[RESOLVED] File zipping in Windows XP with PHP 5

[ppowell]

Has anyone had any luck with file zipping utilities for PHP 4-5 and Windows XP with Apache 2.0.53?

Following is my code snippet:

	if ($this->isSuccessful) {				// RUN ZIP COMMAND BASED UPON STRING
		 $zipName = ($album) ? "${section}s_$album" : "${section}s";
		 $zipName .= '.zip';
	  	 // NEW 4/1/2005 SEE NOTES IN classes.inc.php ON getKommandOSArray() METHOD
		 list($zipKommand, $zipRedirect) = @array_values($this->getKommandOSArray('zip-jF9'));	 
		 $msg = exec("$zipKommand $locationPath/$zipName " . trim($imageList) . " $zipRedirect");
		 if (preg_match('/zip error:/i', $msg)) {
		  $this->isSuccessful = false;
		  $this->setErrorArray(array('action' => "Error attempting to create zip file from album \"$album\": " . nl2br($msg)));
		 }
		 if ($this->isSuccessful && is_file("$locationPath/$zipName") && (int)@filesize("$locationPath/$zipName") > (int)$maxDownloadableFileSize) {
		  $this->isSuccessful = false;
		  $this->setErrorArray(array('willDownloadDisk' => 'ZIP archive file size is larger than maximum allowable downloadable file size of ' .
								                       			    DownloadableComponentsView::displayReadableMaxDownloadableFileSize() . 
													    ', file destroyed'
						       		  )
					      	       );
		  @unlink("$locationPath/$zipName");
		 }
		}

Where "zip-jF9" in Windows comes out to be

wzzip -u -en

I read online that WZZIP is a utility that will allow for using WinZip in Windows within a command line prompt, which I would need to do in order to use PHP's exec() command to do such.

Following are the steps I took:

1) Downloaded and installed WZZIP - making sure wzzip.exe and wzunzip.exe exist in the same folder as winzip32.exe
2) Added "C:\Program Files\WinZip" to my PATH environmental variable
3) Rebooted
4) Restarted Apache

However, upon attempt to run the above PHP snippet, my Firefox and my IE windows both locked up and Apache crashed!

I am thinking "WZZIP" is a big mistake, or, bad installation, or.. ??

Any thoughts or alternative ideas for file zipping in Windows using PHP?

Thanx
Phil

[ppowell]

This took a very long time to solve, but apparently it involves a third-party app found on cvs.php.net (which, incidentally, will work in Windows without having to install PEAR):

	 $zipName = ($album) ? "${section}s_$album" : "${section}s";
		 $zipName .= '.zip';
		 /*-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
		 	New 10/13/2005: Windows has no stable process as of this date to do command-line
			file archiving ("zip"), thus, a cross-OS methodology to involve Windows command-line
			usage will become, at the very least, problematic, after extensive testing.  However,
			there is an available library included with this application that will perform the
			same file archiving capability as the UNIX "zip" command within ./include/zip.inc.php

		For more information go to
		http://cvs.php.net/pear/Archive_Zip/Zip.php?php=3869971673a722307df9b9613f634232
	 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
	 if ($_ENV['windir']) {									// WILL EXCLUSIVELY BE USED BY WINDOWS
	  $zip =& new Archive_Zip("$locationPath/$zipName");	// SEE NOTES IN ./include/zip.inc.php on CONSTRUCTOR BUILDING
	  // SEE NOTES IN ./include/zip.inc.php ON USAGE OF create() METHOD
	  $imageListArray = preg_split('/"[\s\t]+"/', $imageList);
	  @array_walk($imageListArray, create_function('&$a', '$a = str_replace(\'"\', \'\', $a);')); //
	  if (!$zip->create($imageListArray, array('remove_all_path' => true))) {
	   $this->isSuccessful = false;
	   $this->setErrorArray(array('action' => "Error attempting to create zip file from album \"$album\": " . nl2br(htmlentities($zip->errorInfo()))));
	  }
	 } else {												// DEFAULT ZIPPING UTILITY BY ALL OTHER OS'S
  	  // NEW 4/1/2005 SEE NOTES IN classes.inc.php ON getKommandOSArray() METHOD
	  list($zipKommand, $zipRedirect) = @array_values($this->getKommandOSArray('zip-jF9'));	 
	  $msg = exec("$zipKommand $locationPath/$zipName " . trim($imageList) . " $zipRedirect");
	  if (preg_match('/zip error:/i', $msg)) {
	   $this->isSuccessful = false;
	   $this->setErrorArray(array('action' => "Error attempting to create zip file from album \"$album\": " . nl2br($msg)));
	  }
	 }

At long last!!

Phil