Re: ZIPing and UnZIPing files with PHP.

On Sun, 7 Oct 2001 13:12:48 +0200 (CEST) impersonator of sterling@designmultimedia.com (Sterling Hughes) planted &I saw in php.general: > you can also use PHP's zip extension to natively read zip files (via > the zziplib library). > If we restrict question just to "unzip": Is zipping technology (its file format) copyrighted or something? If not - it is better often to try to deal with .zip without being dependent on additional libraries (weither they are available) or programs, I believe. Is exec call, btw, more expensive then the function call (time-wize)? I guess so. Is there a way then (or planned) to incorporate connection between .php and a (compiled) program like in internal function call? > -Sterling > >On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, hassan el forkani wrote: > >> just a guess >> if you can do that from the shell then you should be able to do that from >> your php script exec (gzip.......) >> regards >> >> At 04:21 08/10/01, Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes wrote: >> >Hello all, >> > >> >I am wondering if there's any PHP lib to unzip and zip ZIP files on a >> >UNIX/Linux enviroment. >> > >> >How to ZIP and unZIP files using PHP? >> > >> >Can anyone point me the way on this? >> > >> >Thanks in advance, >> > >> >Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes. >> > >> >--