Tips, Tricks and Tutorials 7zip, Zip, and RAR archive support in Ubuntu Server December 12, 2013 by Craig Lotter No Comments Unfortunately the Ubuntu server by default doesn’t come with support for .7z, .zip and .rar archive formats installed, meaning that if you want to work... Read More
CodeUnit How to Download Facebook Photo Albums September 26, 2011 by Craig Lotter No Comments It is all very well to upload and share your photos with the world on Facebook, but sometimes it is also pretty handy to be... Read More
CodeUnit PHP: Easy Function to Create a ZIP File Archive August 22, 2011 by Craig Lotter No Comments Borrowing from the always brilliant Mr. David Walsh, here is a great little function to create a zip file archive of a given set of... Read More
CodeUnit Ubuntu Server: Maximum Compression of a file Using 7za November 28, 2010 by Craig Lotter No Comments Just a quick one-liner to remind me how to ultra compress a file using 7za instead of the bog standard gzip which I always seem... Read More
CodeUnit Ubuntu Terminal: How to Quickly GZip a File July 1, 2010 by Craig Lotter No Comments File archiving is a particularly simple affair and there are quite a few different archive algorithms to pick and choose from. GZip (.gz) has for... Read More
CodeUnit PHP: Extract a Zip File’s Contents December 9, 2009 by Craig Lotter No Comments The other day I needed to automate the unzipping and processing of files contained within a zip archive. Using the existing PHP Zip library and... Read More