Have you ever faced problem in downloading a ZIP format file using MAC browser? Well we certainly have, let me elaborate the problems with ZIP archives.

There are many libraries available in PHP for manipulating the ZIP format archives. Zip archives created using these libraries works fine under Windows and Unix browsers but has serious problems on the Mac browser.

PclZip is a PHP class that can extract or create ZIP format archives. This class supports relative paths/no paths, comments and recursion through subdirectories.

To solve this hitch in Mac browsers , redirect to the ZIP archive after creating the archive using PclZip library instead of sending the file to the browser for download.

Apin Pratap, Software Associates