About the requested feature (having zip support even if zip is not available). Some users seems to have already some code about it (http://gallery.menalto.com/node/41670 and http://gallery.menalto.com/files/zipcart_profix898_g21mod.zip). Would it be possible to merge their code with the official module ?
Bugs
1. Found a "bug". ZipCart does not use the php-temp-directory but "data.gallery.tmp" without checking if it exists or is writeable. In secure environments ZipCart does not have the right to create this directory (does it even try?). When trying to download a cart, you just get no Download and the cart is empty again. The problem is, that ZipCart does not throw any error (meaningful or not), so somebody unable to edit ZipCart to get some debug output has no possibility to know, why no download is offered. It would be a good idea to add something into Download.inc at line 46 to check, whether "data.gallery.tmp" exists or not.
I also see this behavior:
"When trying to download a cart, you just get no Download and the cart is empty again. The problem is, that ZipCart does not throw any error (meaningful or not), so somebody unable to edit ZipCart to get some debug output has no possibility to know, why no download is offered."
Does anyone know a way to workaround this until the ZipCart module is repaired? Or perhaps we might document what directory we should make sure to have in place, or allow ZipCart to create. In my case, I am running Apache on a Windows server.
Thanks for any advice - I have been struggling to get ZipCart to work for the past 8 hours.
http://gallery.menalto.com/node/86983
In Linux, /usr/bin/zip
