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During last night's usergroup presentation I mentioned another new Scorpio tag, one we've not yet discussed publicly, and the tag that will now appear last in alphabetical CFML tag listings. <CFZIP> provides access to ZIP and JAR files, supporting the following actions:

DELETE deletes one or more files from an archive file.
LIST lists the contents of an archive file.
READ reads the contents of an archived file into a variable.
READBINARY reads the contents of a binary archived file into a variable.
UNZIP extracts files from an archive file.
ZIP compressed files into an archive file.

A child <CFZIPPARAM> tag is also supported as an optional way to provide file names and other attributes.

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This Is JUST Great !

We have been using the third party tools to do these kinda of stuff.

Anyways, One quick question I had was is there any sort of documentation for the new tags which are supported in Scorpio. I mean it would be easier for us to test implement if we can get sort of documentation on them. Or is this something we have to wait till its release ? Please Advice.

# Posted By Mujeebur Rahmansaher | 5/22/07 2:53 PM

COOL!!! Adobe's invented a new archive file format!

What sort of specs are there for the ZAP files? Filename length? Empty folders? Compression algos?

Come on, Ben... details details! ;)

# Posted By Jared Rypka-Hauer | 5/22/07 3:19 PM

ZAP files? I was at Lansing last night and you didn't mention "ZAP" files in CF8 there! LOL

# Posted By John Farrar | 5/22/07 3:53 PM

Yeah, right, nice guys - kick a guy while he is sleep deprived ;-) Wiseguys! Fixed.

--- Ben

# Posted By Ben Forta | 5/22/07 3:57 PM

lol - The funny part is - WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY back in the day when.... ZAP actually WAS a file compression program - based off of an LZH alogrithm. I believe it was for the either the old Amiga platform or for OS/2 Warp - I can't remember which.

# Posted By Sid Wing | 5/22/07 5:13 PM

I have to give it up. You all were *definitely* thinking about the developer with this release. That makes this developer very happy.

# Posted By Rob Wilkerson | 5/23/07 8:56 AM

I really enjoyed the Coldfusion User Group in Lansing the other night. Ben really knows his stuff and it was a real pleasure meeting him. Go Ben Go!! Coldfusion is now my new passion for our companies website and one day to help others as well!!

Thanks Ben and I look forward to meeting you again!

# Posted By Ray Salyer | 5/23/07 10:31 AM

Awww, Ben... you know we love you man (in that manly sort of way)!

You guys always bust your behinds for us in a big way and we appreciate it more than you can know.

# Posted By Jared Rypka-Hauer | 5/23/07 10:40 AM

I am using winrar, satisfies. and zip fignya

# Posted By Chair | 5/25/07 4:58 AM

A great tag, but.... I have one question about using cfzip action=unzip, is there a way to unzip an archive file containing file names with accents?

Thanks

# Posted By Philippe Thiout | 1/21/08 6:47 PM

I have the same question as the last guy. I need to be able to unzip files whose names contain characters such as é, ç, ö etc

Currently this does not work. Can anyone help?

Thanks

# Posted By Garry Viner | 1/14/09 8:05 PM

I am using CFZIP to read in .xlsx files - when i dump the content, all strings come across as numbers...? like A is 5, B is 6 but AB is NOT 56 its another number. However all numeric content stays intact. Anyone know how to resolev the string auto-converting to numers issue?

# Posted By CF Guy | 3/10/09 5:20 PM

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ZIP And JAR File Access In Scorpio