Copy files to directory

nph

I don't normally work at the OS file system level when using PHP and have never tried this, but I know it's gotta be possible. What I want to do is write a script that will replace files in one directory with files from another directory when invoked (even if there are already files there). Anybody ever do this? (this is on a Win2k3 Server). Any examples or advice on where to get started would be appreciated!

devinemke

[man]opendir[/man]
[man]readdir[/man]
[man]scandir[/man]
[man]copy[/man]

nph

Thanks, that should help. However, why would I use both scandir and readdir?

devinemke

nph wrote:
...However, why would I use both scandir and readdir?

if you use PHP4, use readdir()
if you use PHP5, use scandir()

nph

Ah! Thank you very much.

nph

Ok, I've implemented a routine that will copy files like needed; however, I'm now having problems with Windows permissions.

I'm trying to use the PHP copy() function but do not know how to configure Windows permissions to get it to work correctly. Does anyone have any pointers? I don't want to create a security risk here.

mobtex

I really don't know about the Windows side of things but generally speaking you need to have write permissions on the directory you are copying the files to.

Hope this helps.