diff --git a/user_guide/changelog.html b/user_guide/changelog.html
index ae63b1f..08c9815 100644
--- a/user_guide/changelog.html
+++ b/user_guide/changelog.html
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@
 			<li>Added a <kbd>download()</kbd> method to the <a href="libraries/ftp.html">FTP library</a></li>
 			<li>Changed <kbd>do_xss_clean()</kbd> to return FALSE if the uploaded file fails XSS checks.</li> 
 			<li>Added stripslashes() and trim()ing of double quotes from $_FILES type value to standardize input in Upload library.</li>
+			<li>Added a second parameter (boolean) to <kbd>$this->zip->read_dir('/path/to/directory', FALSE)</kbd> to remove the preceding trail of empty folders when creating a Zip archive. This example would contain a zip with "directory" and all of its contents.</li>
 		</ul>
 	</li>
 	<li>Database
diff --git a/user_guide/libraries/zip.html b/user_guide/libraries/zip.html
index 44603f2..844023b 100644
--- a/user_guide/libraries/zip.html
+++ b/user_guide/libraries/zip.html
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@
 
 <h2>$this->zip->read_dir()</h2>
 
-<p>Permits you to compress a folder (and its contents) that already exists somewhere on your server.  Supply a file path to the 
+<p>Permits you to compress a folder (and its contents) that already exists somewhere on your server.  Supply a file path to the
 directory and the zip class will recursively read it and recreate it as a Zip archive.  All files contained within the
 supplied path will be encoded, as will any sub-folders contained within it.  Example:</p>
 
@@ -189,6 +189,16 @@
 $this->zip->download('my_backup.zip');
 </code>
 
+<p>By default the Zip archive will place all directories listed in the first parameter inside the zip. If you only want the end folder to be in the zip
+you can pass <kbd>FALSE</kbd> (boolean) in the second parameter.  Example:</p>
+
+<code>
+$path = '/path/to/your/directory/';<br /><br />
+$this->zip->read_dir($path, FALSE);
+</code>
+
+<p>This will create a ZIP with the folder "directory" inside, then all sub-folders stored correctly inside that.</p>
+