PHP ZIP files on the fly

Question

What\'s the easiest way to zip, say 2 files, from a folder on the server and force download? Without saving the \"zip\" to the server.

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Answer 1

If you have access to the zip commandline utility you can try

where files is the things you want to zip and zip the location to the zip executable.

This assumes Linux or similar, of course. In Windows you might be able to do similar with another compression tool, I guess.

There's also a zip extension, usage shown here.