can someone help me with a php script which can zip a normal file which user enters and allows the user to download the zip file....

Hi,
I haven't done this personally, however, if you have a look at http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function...ve-addfile.php, you can view some good examples, these would just need modified to fit what you need...

That's probably the closest example you could have...

PHP Code:

  <?php
$zip = new ZipArchive;
if ($zip->open('test.zip') === TRUE) {
    $zip->addFile('/path/to/index.txt', 'newname.txt');
    $zip->close();
    echo 'ok';
} else {
    echo 'failed';
}
?>

it is written in site itself that it wont work

exec("zip '{$path_to_zipfile}' '{$path_to_userfile}'");

I am just curious what you are going to use this for on your site. I guess I can think of a couple things, but I was wanting to know how it was going to be integrated into your web page.