Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Zip files with PHP

After researching few different classes written in PHP that zip files and not necessarily extract files from zip archives I've come across the one that was able to handle multiple client platforms like Win XP, Linux, and MAC OS. It is called plczip and it is found at pclzip website. Other classes that I've tried offered similar functionalities but proved difficult to work with in WIN XP native zip extractor. Zip file format has several bits(flags) that unreadable by that native XP extractor so with pclzip class those issues got resolved.
Here is the list of the other classes researched:

zip class from red monkey
hasin zip class
zip class by joshua townsend