: Use the ZipArchive class to create and serve files directly from your script. 3. Quick Alternatives (Tools)

: A highly efficient, free open-source utility for Windows that supports multiple formats like .7z and .zip .

: Use archiver . It uses streams, meaning it can start "downloading" to the user while it's still compressing, which saves memory.

PeaZip free archiver utility, open extract RAR TAR ZIP files

Generating the ZIP on your server is better for large files or collections stored in your database.

Knowing this will let me provide a specific code snippet.

If you are looking for free software to manage ZIP files on your own machine rather than building a feature: