Zip library - Large file processing

I'm not sure about the 'zip' thing, but when I had issues uploading large files, could be zips or different formats, I found plupload did the trick (you can browse the source on github), essentially it uses chunked uploads to get around the memory limitation issue you get when dealing with large file/uploads.

It might be worth a look at....

Also, I'd just like to add PHP isn't great for these kind of tasks, it is something you'd want to do with something like nodejs which supports non blocking IO...

Good info found here.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43570...ut-disk-cp

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