Re: On going ZipArchive saga

recalling: I was having problems with ZipArchive->open(<file name>, ZipArchive::CREATE) returning error code 1 (multidisc archives not supported) in various circumstances. This seems to make a subtle but important difference $zipper = new ZipArchive(); $ret = $zipper->open('some.zip', ZipArchive::CREATE) the dfference: If($ret > 0)// look for an int representing an err code { // but no legitimate err is returned by open // I get the multidisc not supported error and the zip file is not created // this seems to imply that 'true' is being evaluated as 1 } if($ret !== true) {

    // when no legitimate err code is returned by open
    // test fails and the zip file is created.

} I have been getting the error 1 code on three different Mac OSX based servers. I finally decided to resurrect one of my home built machines and install FreeBSD v10.1 I did that and went through the laborious processes of adding apache/php to it and migrating the relevant dev work to it, only to find the same problem. So I had to get inventive I hope this will be a relief to anyone with anxieties about it (it is for me) JK