Ripping websites apart and putting them back together...

I type "[s]he" by habit rather than just "he". Usually it prevents people from taking offense. I've never had someone take offense before because of it. :) Sorry.

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Now that I see how people see it, I will zip all the achives.

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On my website, I used to have all of the files separately available for download and in an archive, because I had so much free space on the web server. But it's a pain to keep all of those files straight, and even more of a pain to download. Now I only have the really big files available separately (like SDL.DLL).

Hmmm, good point Koni.

EDIT @dwks:
Yeah, guess it was my mistake, but maybe you should use "(s)he" rather than "[s]he"?

Neat, I didn't know deleted messages showed up like that.

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Yeah, guess it was my mistake, but maybe you should use "(s)he" rather than "[s]he"?

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That's the standard used in published literature, but since in several programming contexts square brackets indicate optional characters, I like using them for some reason. :)

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Originally Posted by dwks

On my website, I used to have all of the files separately available for download and in an archive, because I had so much free space on the web server. But it's a pain to keep all of those files straight, and even more of a pain to download. Now I only have the really big files available separately (like SDL.DLL).

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Server-side scripting languages like PHP can gzip files on the fly, so you only ever have put one type of files on the server.

The entire code is:

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<?php
  file_put_contents('output.gz', gzencode( file_get_contents('input.file'),9));
?>

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I did a little research on how to create a TAR archive using php. Although this isn't supported by a PHP extension, there's a pear package that does that just fine, called Archive_Tar.

The whole code to tar and gzip several files is here:

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<?php

// include class
require("Archive/Tar.php");

// create Archive_Tar() object
// specify filename for output file
$tar = new Archive_Tar("data.tar.gz", "gz");

// set up file list
$files = array("images/blank.gif", "images/close.gif", "images/closelabel.gif", "images/thumb-1.jpg");

// build archive
$tar->create($files) or die("Could not create archive!");

?>

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You have no idea how much I need that code for my little DB project :) Well, maybe you do. Well, I didn't know I needed it until I read it just there, but it's very handy!

That's a good idea, you know. I should use something like that. (My server does support PHP, luckily.)