On 22/09/2010 12:11, Viacheslav Chumushuk wrote: > Hello. > As I understand you in a right way you need next function http://ua.php.net/manual/en/function.gzcompress.php Thanks for the suggestion Viacheslav , but I'd trying to the create the complete zipfile structure, gzcompress() just compresses the file's data (and in a slightly different manner to what ZIP does - the first and last 4 bytes are different to what zip produces) and, probably more importantly, doesn't add the file name headers on either end But the principle - ie something that returns a "string" - is what I'm looking for. Kind Regards Jonathan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php