How to Zip files using JavaScript?

Question

Is there a way to zip files using JavaScript?? For an example, like in Yahoo mail, when you chose to download all the attachments from an email, it gets zipped and downloade

Answer 1

JavaScript is capable of doing this but not in a cross-browser fashion that you can count on.

This can however be done easily with a server-side language. If you are used to PHP here is the documentation for PHP's ZIP functions: http://php.net/manual/en/book.zip.php