Gziping Folders

[Anon]

I'm using PHP and Gzip off the server to gzip up some files.

If I select individual files, everything is fine, but I can't figure out the syntax to gzip a folder.

$zipfile=shell_exec("gzip -9 test.html");

That's what I'm using for a file.

But how do a zip a folder?

[[deleted]]

Gzip doesn't do folders, only files.
Use TAR to create an archive file that holds the directory structure and the files, Gzip that file.

[smarlowe]

As a followup, under gnutar, the syntax for grabbing a directory that's gzipped is:

tar -cvzf dirname.tar.gz dirname

to take it back apart, use:

tar -xvzf dirname.tar.gz