ZipArchive question

Hello; Finally good news: I got a zip successfully created using ZipArchive (after considerable struggle late last year) But I need a bit of a tutorial, to the extent that I downloaded the zip file to the client via ftp connection. So, the client is MacOSX and the ftp client is Fetch. Mac automatically expanded the zip file. BUT what it did was recreate the whole absolute path: as dirs within dirs The content was a collection to text files that appeared in their original locations: not in the zip file location, in the expanded zip. I also have an http/php download facility, but that seems to need some reform at this time. SO: 1: Should I be using server absolute paths instead of system absolute paths? 2: Would it be better to create a directory and copy/add the content to it, and

     then zip the directory?

Thank you for time, attention, and patience; JK