Web – Php unzip, zip or compress folders and files using php

I really don’t like Php. Anyway, some time it is the most easy way to act on the server. For example, to zip or unzip files. But the method I expose in this post only work on Linux/Unix because it is based on command line.

If you send 200 files and 5 folders by ftp it can take 40 minutes. But if you send a .zip and then unzip the archive file, you may spend 35 minutes less… It was what I did to uncompress the WordPress files.

Examples

• Save with .tar

<?php
$archive = "save.tar";
$directory = "../SaveMePlease/";
exec( "tar cf $archive $directory");
exec( "gzip $archive");
header( 'Location: http://www.IneedToRedirectAfter.com' ) ;
?>

• Unzip

<?php
$archive = "myZipFile.zip";
exec( "unzip $archive");
?>

And After

You can look at the fallowing links to do what you really need :

http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl1_unzip.htm

http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl1_gzip.htm