Remote Directory Name Pattern

[bschultz]

I work at a radio station.  Each week, we have to download (using SCP or wget) a bunch of mp3's to air during the weekend.  The problem I'm having is that the remote directory that these files are located in changes the name from one week to another.

 

For instance, this week one directory is named 'Live In Concert ROCK (Sunday) 02.22.15 version3'.  Next week, it might be 'Live In Concert ROCK (Sunday) 02.29.15 version2'

 

What I need is a matching pattern of 'Live in Concert' and the 'date'...and there will be other stuff in between those two patterns.  To complicate this...it's on a remote machine.

 

What are my options?

 

Thanks.

[tryingtolearn]

 

 

What are my options?

options for what?

[syed]

What software does the remote machine have installed? web server? if so , are the mp3 in a web directory?

[Psycho]

What are you trying to accomplish by creating a pattern? Are you trying to dynamically determine which folder to download files from? If so, you can (pretty sure) download the folder list and compare the names to do that. I've not used FTP functions in PHP enough to know. But, in determining the pattern, I assume you want to look for a specific data based on the current day's date. It appears you want to always use a Sunday date. So, how do want to choose "which" Sunday to use? I assume if it is Monday to Saturday, you want to use the next Sunday. But, what if you run the code on a Sunday? Should it use the current date or the next week's Sunday?

[QuickOldCar]

If you have permission the other server add a script to find the latest folder by date.

If not ask them to do it.

 

something like this

<?php
function latestDirectory($path = NULL)
{
    if ($path == NULL) {
        $path = "/";
    }
    $list = array();
    $path = rtrim($path, "/");
    if (substr($path, 0, 1) != "/") {
        $path = "/" . $path;
    }
    if ($path == "/") {
        $path = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
    } else {
        $path = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . $path;
    }
    $working_dir = getcwd();
    chdir($path);
    $ret_val = false;
    if ($p = opendir($path)) {
        while (false !== ($file = readdir($p))) {
            if ($file{0} != '.' && is_dir($file)) {
                $timestamp   = filemtime($path . '/' . $file);
                $pretty_date = date("m/d/Y h:i:s A", $timestamp);
                $list[]      = array(
                    "directory" => $path . '/' . $file,
                    "date" => $pretty_date,
                    "timestamp" => $timestamp
                );
            }
        }
        rsort($list);
    }
    chdir($working_dir);
    //return list array;
    return $list;
}


$list_array = latestDirectory(); //use directory names,document root included in function
if (!empty($list_array)) {
    //last directory created
    echo $list_array['0']['directory'];
   
    //list of directories
    echo "<pre>";
    print_r($list_array);
    echo "<pre>";
}
?>