Classic ASP

Transition from Zip.AppendString2 to Zip.AddString

Provides instructions for replacing deprecated AppendString2 method calls with AddString.

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Classic ASP

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<%
success = 0

set zip = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Zip")

' ...
' ...
pathInZip = "example.txt"
textData = "This is a test"
charset = "utf-8"

' ------------------------------------------------------------------------
' The AppendString method is deprecated:

' entryObj is a Chilkat.ZipEntry
Set entryObj = zip.AppendString2(pathInZip,textData,charset)
If (zip.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( zip.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' ...
' ...

' ------------------------------------------------------------------------
' Do the equivalent using AddString.

' Instead of returning the zip entry object, we just return success/failure.
success = zip.AddString(pathInZip,textData,charset)
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( zip.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' Do the following if you need the zip entry object for what was just appended.
' The newly appended entry is the last one.
set ze = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.ZipEntry")
index = zip.NumEntries - 1
success = zip.EntryAt(index,ze)

%>
</body>
</html>