PHP 4+ - 5.0.4, Windows XP and Gzip - HELP

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I am simply trying to zip together selected files into a single ZIP
file. Windows XP doesn't have a native process by which you can do
this, so I borrowed gzip, downloaded and installed, and upon using it:

<?
$msg = exec('gzip -q --suffix .zip '. @join(' ', $fileArray));
?>

All of my files named in $fileArray were horribly mangled!! They all
were converted individually into files with .zip extension that lost
all of their original data structures.

I was told it was "so easy" to use gzip.. so how do I use gzip? No
tutorial exists that I can find that even explains gzip; the docs are
absolutely not helpful and man gzip is not going to happen since I'm in
Windows and not UNIX ("gzip -h" does not help either, I need a clear
example of how to compress files together into a single .zip file, like
what WinZip does).

Help!

Thanx
Phil

[comp.lang.php]

Re: PHP 4+ - 5.0.4, Windows XP and Gzip - HELP

Resolved by not using gzip.. using PEAR-based class Archive_Zip
instead.

Phil

[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

Re: PHP 4+ - 5.0.4, Windows XP and Gzip - HELP

comp.lang.php wrote:
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> I was told it was "so easy" to use gzip.. so how do I use gzip?[/color]
<snip>

Glad that you're sorted out already. Anyway, if I'm right you were
actually trying to use command line version of gzip.

If you have zlib enabled (it must be enabled as you could use
Archive_zip), you can use gzip functions <http://in.php.net/zlib>. As
the usernotes suggest, possibly the easiest way to create gzipped file
is using URL wrapper:

file_put_conten ts('compress.zl ib://hello.txt.gz', 'Hello');

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