Creating a Zipped File

[Guest]

I have developed an application where a user submits large graphics files which are then emailed to our client. Is there a way that these files can be compressed using WinZip or another compression utility) before being emailed? Just got back to using Cold Fusion recently and have not been able to find any examples/doc on this subject.

[cf_dev2]

If you're using CF8 you can use <cfzip>
http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/Tags_u-z_5.html#2851426

If you're using MX6/7 take a look at these two udf's that use java classes to zip/unzip files. They're a bit dated, but it could easily be re-written using cffunction/cfargument tags

http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=744
http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=997