The documentation doesn't seem hard to follow, it just doesn't seem to specify, that I can see, a few things. First being, how do you set the name of the zip file? It shows how to read an already made zip file and it give this next line as an example, thing is it doesn't explain if this is how you assign the name of the zip file itself. It just gives you the code. 
my $zip = Archive::Zip->new('somefile.zip');

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I don't want to keep a zip file of the files, I'd rather have it temporary and forgotten at the time it loads. I know I can unlink the zip file afterwards, but it looks like it might have what I'm looking for. This is hard for me to understand, will this create a temporary zip file that will disappear when the script ends? 
Archive::Zip::tempName( [$tmpdir] ) 
Create a unique name for a temp file, in the given directory or in the
+ first one of:

    /tmp
    $ENV{TMPDIR}
    $ENV{TEMP}
    .
Archive::Zip::tempFile( [$tmpdir] ) 
Create a uniquely named temp file. It will be returned open for read/w
+rite. If $tmpdir is given, it is used as the name of a directory to c
+reate the file in. If not given, creates the file in the first direct
+ory found in this list:

    /tmp
    $ENV{TMPDIR}
    $ENV{TEMP}

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Basically all I want to do is when they go to my script, it makes a zip file for a given $filename and pushes it as a download box so they can download it. So not only do I need to create a zip file and remove it (or not ever store it) but at the same time push it to the user to download.

Can someone show me an example of how I would do any part of this? Compression isn't needed, just the fact it's a zip file will work. This is what I've got so far. 

my $member = "/home/name/www/images/sunset.png";

my $zip = Archive::Zip->new('newfile.zip');
$zip->addMember( $member );

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In reply to Examples of Archive::Zip by Anonymous Monk

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