Classic ASP
Classic ASP
Create Zip in a BinData Object
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Recursively appends files in a directory tree and writes a zip archive into a Chilkat BinData object.Chilkat Classic ASP Downloads
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success = 0
' This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.
set zip = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Zip")
' Initialize the zip object. Because we will never actually write a zip file to the filesystem,
' the filepath passed to NewZip does not matter.
success = zip.NewZip("x.zip")
If (success <> 1) Then
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( zip.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
Response.End
End If
' Append a directory tree. The call to AppendFiles does
' not read the file contents or append them to the zip
' object in memory. It simply appends references
' to the files so that when WriteBd, WriteZip, or WriteZipAndClose
' is called, the referenced files are streamed and compressed
' into the .zip output file (or BinData object).
recurse = 1
success = zip.AppendFiles("c:/temp/a/*",recurse)
If (success <> 1) Then
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( zip.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
Response.End
End If
' Write the zip archive into the bdZip object.
set bdZip = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.BinData")
success = zip.WriteBd(bdZip)
If (success <> 1) Then
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( zip.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
Response.End
End If
' We could directly access the bytes of the zip archive, or perhaps
' get the zip bytes in base64 format.
zipAsBase64 = bdZip.GetEncoded("base64")
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( zipAsBase64) & "</pre>"
' Or the zip can be used by some other Chilkat method call that accepts
' a BinData object as an argument.
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