Compressing/decompressing files/directories

[pyrech]

Should we add some helpers to compress and decompress files or directories?

[tigitz]

Thinking out loud, I'm wondering about the performance of using PHP for compression compared to tools like tar or gunzip. For database dumps, I usually use pigz for faster parallel compression.

I’ve made some helpers for this, but they depend on pigz being installed, which isn’t great for cross-platform use. If PHP-only solutions are much slower, they might not be useful for big files, but they could still work well for smaller ones.

[lyrixx]

@pyrech Do you think of PHP implementation with phar class, or with process using tar, gunzip, etc ?

[pyrech]

I think it would be better to use native binaries when available (but that would not works for Windows). Maybe we could have a PHP fallback for some formats, for example, with the PHP ZipArchive class (this requires the PHP extension zip though).

[lyrixx]

Let's go :)