[dannyallen]

Can someone explain to me about how to make a Zip file using PHP? I only need to put in a few files into the ZIP before it is created in the PHP, but I do need to put files created from the PHP into the Zip created by the PHP.

[blaw]

Hello,

Did you mean gzip? If so, you can find a good explanation here:

http://ca2.php.net/manual/en/ref.zlib.php

It should be straightforward, but note that you need to compile PHP with zlib library.

As for pkzip, officially, PHP supports reading only, it seems like:

http://ca2.php.net/manual/en/ref.zip.php

But pay attention to the comments on the above page - someone offers a library to create one, too. BUT I have never even tried reading pkzip files with PHP, so I cannot comment further nor be responsible for whatever you do with it.

Hope this helps.

[YourPHPPro]

You also might want to check out phpzip at:

http://www.phpconcept.net/phpzip/index.en.php

PhpZip is an application which creates archives and extracte files in several archive formats. Formats are the standard GNU TAR and the ZIP.

[infinitylimit]

Yeah with what blaw said you probably want to use tar/gzip anyway. Winzip supports this as well as stuffit expander, and it's native to *nix machines so that covers all your basis.