Create and edit TAR archives dynamically with PHP and PEAR

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 23, 2007 6:21 PM EDT
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If you've ever downloaded a widget for your UNIX system, you've already met TAR, the Tape ARchive format that is commonly used in UNIX for packaging multiple files together for easy distribution. This format is popular not only because the tools to create it exist on all UNIX systems, but also because it's particularly good at preserving the directory structure, permissions, and user and group information of the files it archives.

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