Is it possible to simultaneously compress files into an archive and return it to the user using php?

Question

PHP

Is it possible to archive this data using php in such a way that it would simultaneously write them to disk and give them to the client?
Or you need to create a separate thread in which files will be archived, while the main thread will read the file with the archive until all files are compressed and the entire archive is read.

Answer 1

Yes, you can. You archive directly to the stream. There is a php zipstream library - google it. I am using it successfully.