On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:35:19 +0100, Michael Baierl mail@mbaierl.com wrote:
till wrote:
I guess it wouldn't hurt to make this configurable. ;-)
I agree, but I would also say that ZIP is the de-facto standard that is supported by all Operating Systems. And why build up something where you can choose between zip, arj, rar, gz, bz2 when practically all do the same and just one is needed?
Because most of the others are able to compress/uncompress faster and smaller. Because there is greater support in most of the web products for gzip/bzip - not to mention the fact that the most frequently used/ installed web server (Apache) can compress web communication on-the-fly. Did I mention that PHP supports gzip out-of-the-box? :)
Sorry, couldn't resist. :)
So I would really recommend using ZIP only (using the PHP extension http://uk.php.net/zip) to keep the code simple and maintainable.
My 2c,
Mike
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