A script to check files in one directory and copy them to annother...

[Curver]

Hello everyone!

 

Im new here, but i have been doing some php coding for a while and im trying to move my skills on from basic database manipulation and design.

 

I’ve not done anything with files but i need a script to fix a problem which i have to do manually every day. Basically, i run with both a https and a http folder on the server but when users upload and change files it only does this on the https folder and not the http folder. Unfortunately, this is a encrypted third party script for an e-commerce website and therefore i can’t just change the code to work with both directories.

 

I currently just use an ftp program to download all of the images in httpsdocs/images and set it to skip if the file already exists. I then do the exact same upload command to the httpdocs/images folder. This way it only uploads the new files and doesn’t touch the old files thus saving me bandwidth and time.

 

Now i know what your going to say, turn off use separate folders in plesk which would be great if i knew which files were used in https transactions and which weren’t. That’s right, the previous webmaster is running different file sets on both directories and I want to implement this while I work through the file versions.

 

Back on to code, is there a way to do this in php? Im planning on running a cron job to execute the script which will check each file in a folder if it exists in another folder. If it doesn’t exist it copies the file to the other folder. A point in the right direction to some documentation on the code will be helpful as I’m wanting to learn.

 

Thanks,

Curver

[Adam]

Could you not just set-up the 'https' dir as a symlink to 'http'?