ftping only todays files only - php4

Question

I am new to php. have a task to ftp only todays files from the server containing files for over a week. how do i select or filter the files based on date and ftp to my local folder.
Help is much appreciated !!
Soloman

Answer 1

If you already have the filenames to check, use filemtime
Returns the time the file was last modified, or FALSE on failure. The time is returned as a Unix timestamp, which is suitable for the date() function.
To compare that today, you can use date('Y-m-d') to get today compare to date('Y-m-d', filemtime($filename))
To get the filenames, you could use readdir to read each one in turn.
<?php
if ($handle = opendir('/path/to/files')) {
echo "Directory handle: $handle\n";
echo "Files:\n";
while (false !== ($filename = readdir($handle))) {
echo "$filename\n";
}
closedir($handle);
}
?>
The manual also has an FTP example which should show you how to ftp the file once found.
So, combining all this, you could get something like:
<?php
// set up basic connection
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server);
// login with username and password
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass);
// check connection
if ((!$conn_id) || (!$login_result)) {
echo "FTP connection has failed!";
echo "Attempted to connect to $ftp_server for user $ftp_user_name";
exit;
} else {
echo "Connected to $ftp_server, for user $ftp_user_name";
}
if ($handle = opendir('/path/to/files')) {
while (false !== ($filename = readdir($handle))) {
if (date('Y-m-d') == date('Y-m-d', filemtime($filename))) {
// upload the file
$upload = ftp_put($conn_id, $destination_file, $filename, FTP_BINARY);
// check upload status
if (!$upload) {
echo "FTP upload has failed!";
} else {
echo "Uploaded $source_file to $ftp_server as $destination_file";
}
}
}
closedir($handle);
// close the FTP stream
ftp_close($conn_id);
?>
Of course, you will need to fill in the dummy values as appropriate.
Disclaimer: I typed this in notepad++ and it is not tested for any mistakes!

Answer 2

link :
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ftp-rawlist.php
you connect to the server ,
get the list of the files with ftp_rawlist()
and get only file you want via ftp_fget()
example
<?php
// set up basic connection
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server);
// login with username and password
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass);
// get the file list for /
$rawfiles = ftp_rawlist($conn_id, '/');
foreach ($rawfiles as $rawfile) {
# parse the raw data to array
if(!empty($rawfile)) {
$info = preg_split("/[\s]+/", $rawfile, 9);
$arraypointer[] = array(
'text' => $info[8],
'isDir' => $info[0]{0} == 'd',
'size' => byteconvert($info[4]),
'chmod' => chmodnum($info[0]),
'date' => strtotime($info[6] . ' ' . $info[5] . ' ' . $info[7]),
'raw' => $info
// the 'children' attribut is automatically added if the folder contains at least one file
);
// pseudo code check the date
if($arraypointer['date'] is today)
ftp_fget(file);
}
// close the connection
ftp_close($conn_id);
// output the buffer
var_dump($buff);
?>