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fred dot haab at gmail dot com
18-Aug-2006 05:49


Just some caveats for people to consider when working with this copy function.  Like everyone else, I needed a recursive copy function, so I wrote one.



It worked great until I hit a file greater than 2GB, at which point I got a File Size Exceeded error.  I've read that you can recompile PHP with larger file support, but I'm not able to do this on my system.



So I used exec to copy one file at a time (I need to do other things to the file, so can't just do an exec with "cp -r").  Then I ran into problems with spaces in the names.  The escapeshellcmd and escapeshellargs functions don't seem to cleanup spaces, so I wrote my own function to do that.

denis at i39 dot ru
10-Aug-2006 05:53


You can also try to copy with:

<?

exec("cp -r /var/www/mysite /var/backup");

?>

SBoisvert at Don'tSpamMe dot Bryxal dot ca
25-Jul-2006 01:38


to the editor's: Please pardon me.... remove my other 2 messages and this little comment and just stick this. 



just a quick note to add to the great function by:bobbfwed at comcast dot net



this little version has the path not in a define but as a function parameter and also creates the destination directory if it is not already created.



<?php



  // copy a directory and all subdirectories and files (recursive)

  // void dircpy( str 'source directory', str 'destination directory' [, bool 'overwrite existing files'] )

function dircpy($basePath, $source, $dest, $overwrite = false){

    if(!is_dir($basePath . $dest)) //Lets just make sure our new folder is already created. Alright so its not efficient to check each time... bite me

    mkdir($basePath . $dest);

    if($handle = opendir($basePath . $source)){        // if the folder exploration is sucsessful, continue

        while(false !== ($file = readdir($handle))){ // as long as storing the next file to $file is successful, continue

            if($file != '.' && $file != '..'){

                $path = $source . '/' . $file;

                if(is_file($basePath . $path)){

                    if(!is_file($basePath . $dest . '/' . $file) || $overwrite)

                    if(!@copy($basePath . $path, $basePath . $dest . '/' . $file)){

                        echo '<font color="red">File ('.$path.') could not be copied, likely a permissions problem.</font>';

                    }

                } elseif(is_dir($basePath . $path)){

                    if(!is_dir($basePath . $dest . '/' . $file))

                    mkdir($basePath . $dest . '/' . $file); // make subdirectory before subdirectory is copied

                    dircpy($basePath, $path, $dest . '/' . $file, $overwrite); //recurse!

                }

            }

        }

        closedir($handle);

    }

}



?>

emielm at hotmail dot com
08-Jul-2006 12:49


I have been puzzling for hours with the copy() function. I got a "no such file or directory" error message all the time (for the source file). In the end my mistake was that there were some spaces at the end of de source filename...



So, if you get file not found errors and you are sure that the file does exists, use the trim() function to get rid of the spaces.

cooper at asu dot ntu-kpi dot kiev dot ua
09-Mar-2006 04:32


It take me a long time to find out what the problem is when i've got an error on copy(). It DOESN'T create any directories. It only copies to existing path. So create directories before. Hope i'll help,

bobbfwed at comcast dot net
02-Feb-2006 11:06


I have programmed a really nice program that remotely lets you manage files as if you have direct access to them (http://sourceforge.net/projects/filemanage/). I have a bunch of really handy functions to do just about anything to files or directories.

I know there are others like it, but here is the function I made for this program to copy directories; it will likely need tweaking to work as a standalone script, since it relies of variables set by my program (eg: loc1 -- which dynamically changes in my program):



<?PHP

  // loc1 is the path on the computer to the base directory that may be moved

define('loc1', 'C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/htdocs', true);



  // copy a directory and all subdirectories and files (recursive)

  // void dircpy( str 'source directory', str 'destination directory' [, bool 'overwrite existing files'] )

function dircpy($source, $dest, $overwrite = false){



  if($handle = opendir(loc1 . $source)){         // if the folder exploration is sucsessful, continue

    while(false !== ($file = readdir($handle))){ // as long as storing the next file to $file is successful, continue

      if($file != '.' && $file != '..'){

        $path = $source . '/' . $file;

        if(is_file(loc1 . $path)){

          if(!is_file(loc1 . $dest . '/' . $file) || $overwrite)

            if(!@copy(loc1 . $path, loc1 . $dest . '/' . $file)){

              echo '<font color="red">File ('.$path.') could not be copied, likely a permissions problem.</font>';

            }

        } elseif(is_dir(loc1 . $path)){

          if(!is_dir(loc1 . $dest . '/' . $file))

            mkdir(loc1 . $dest . '/' . $file); // make subdirectory before subdirectory is copied

          dircpy($path, $dest . '/' . $file, $overwrite); //recurse!

        }

      }

    }

    closedir($handle);

  }

} // end of dircpy()

?>



This new function will be in 0.9.7 (the current release of File Manage) which has just been released 2/2/06.

Hope this helps some people.

makarenkoa at ukrpost dot net
26-Jul-2005 04:58


A function that copies contents of source directory to destination directory and sets up file modes.

It may be handy to install the whole site on hosting.

<?php

// copydirr.inc.php

/*

26.07.2005

Author: Anton Makarenko

    makarenkoa at ukrpost dot net

    webmaster at eufimb dot edu dot ua

*/

function copydirr($fromDir,$toDir,$chmod=0757,$verbose=false)

/*

    copies everything from directory $fromDir to directory $toDir

    and sets up files mode $chmod

*/

{

//* Check for some errors

$errors=array();

$messages=array();

if (!is_writable($toDir))

    $errors[]='target '.$toDir.' is not writable';

if (!is_dir($toDir))

    $errors[]='target '.$toDir.' is not a directory';

if (!is_dir($fromDir))

    $errors[]='source '.$fromDir.' is not a directory';

if (!empty($errors))

    {

    if ($verbose)

        foreach($errors as $err)

            echo '<strong>Error</strong>: '.$err.'<br />';

    return false;

    }

//*/

$exceptions=array('.','..');

//* Processing

$handle=opendir($fromDir);

while (false!==($item=readdir($handle)))

    if (!in_array($item,$exceptions))

        {

        //* cleanup for trailing slashes in directories destinations

        $from=str_replace('//','/',$fromDir.'/'.$item);

        $to=str_replace('//','/',$toDir.'/'.$item);

        //*/

        if (is_file($from))

            {

            if (@copy($from,$to))

                {

                chmod($to,$chmod);

                touch($to,filemtime($from)); // to track last modified time

                $messages[]='File copied from '.$from.' to '.$to;

                }

            else

                $errors[]='cannot copy file from '.$from.' to '.$to;

            }

        if (is_dir($from))

            {

            if (@mkdir($to))

                {

                chmod($to,$chmod);

                $messages[]='Directory created: '.$to;

                }

            else

                $errors[]='cannot create directory '.$to;

            copydirr($from,$to,$chmod,$verbose);

            }

        }

closedir($handle);

//*/

//* Output

if ($verbose)

    {

    foreach($errors as $err)

        echo '<strong>Error</strong>: '.$err.'<br />';

    foreach($messages as $msg)

        echo $msg.'<br />';

    }

//*/

return true;

}

/* sample usage:

WARNING:

if You set wrong $chmod then You'll not be able to access files and directories

in destination directory.

For example: once upon a time I've called the function with parameters:

copydir($fromDir,$toDir,true);

What happened? I've forgotten one parameter (chmod)

What happened next? Those files and directories became inaccessible for me

(they had mode 0001), so I had to ask sysadmin to delete them from root account

Be careful :-)

<?php

require('./copydirr.inc.php');

copydirr('./testSRC','D:/srv/Apache2/htdocs/testDEST',0777,true);

?>

*/

?>

Andrzej Nadziejko (andrzej at vao . pl)
27-Jun-2005 12:52


These functions are to copy and remove big directories:



/*

source files are in source directory

*/

function SetupFolder($dir_name)

{

    mkdir($dir_name,'0777');

    $folder = opendir('source');

    while($file = readdir($folder))

    {    

        if ($file == '.' || $file == '..') {

            continue;

        }

        if(is_dir('source/'.$file))

        {

            mkdir($dir_name.'/'.$file,0777);

            CopyFiles('source/'.$file,$dir_name.'/'.$file);

        }

        else 

        {    

            copy('source/'.$file,$dir_name.'/'.$file);

        }

    }

    closedir($folder);

    return 1;

}

//copy many files

function CopyFiles($source,$dest)

{    

    $folder = opendir($source);

    while($file = readdir($folder))

    {

        if ($file == '.' || $file == '..') {

            continue;

        }

        

        if(is_dir($source.'/'.$file))

        {

            mkdir($dest.'/'.$file,0777);

            CopySourceFiles($source.'/'.$file,$dest.'/'.$file);

        }

        else 

        {

            copy($source.'/'.$file,$dest.'/'.$file);

        }

        

    }

    closedir($folder);

    return 1;

}

//remove file, directories, subdirectories

function RemoveFiles($source)

{

    $folder = opendir($source);

    while($file = readdir($folder))

    {

        if ($file == '.' || $file == '..') {

            continue;

        }

        

        if(is_dir($source.'/'.$file))

        {

            RemoveFiles($source.'/'.$file);

        }

        else 

        {

            unlink($source.'/'.$file);

        }

        

    }

    closedir($folder);

    rmdir($source);

    return 1;

}

info at sameprecision dot org
28-Jan-2005 03:54


When using copy on win32 (don't know about anywhere else),  copy sets the 'last modified time' of the the new copy to the current time instead of that of the source (win32 copy preserves last modified time).  If you are tracking backups by last modified time, use:



<?php



copy($src, $dest); touch($dest, filemtime($src));



?>

20-Jan-2005 04:34


Heres a quick function I wrote to backup whole websites.

I haven't actually tested it out yet. I will later on  =P

<?



function backup($extension) {

    $counter = 0;

    foreach(glob(“*” . “$extension”) as $file) {

        if ($extension{0} != “.”) {

            $extension = “.” . $extension;

        }

        $file2 = “./backup/” . “$file”;

        $counter++;

        copy($file, $file2);

    }

    if ($counter == 0) {

        return false;

    } else {

        return true;

    }

}



/* Test -- Copy all images */



$extension_array = array(“.jpg”, “.gif”, “.png”, “.bmp”);



foreach($extension_array as $key => $value) {

    backup($extension);

}



?>

simonr_at_orangutan_dot_co_dot_uk
03-Sep-2004 01:54


Having spent hours tacking down a copy() error: Permission denied , (and duly worrying about chmod on winXP) , its worth pointing out that the 'destination' needs to contain the actual file name ! --- NOT just the path to the folder you wish to copy into.......

DOH !

hope this saves somebody hours of fruitless debugging

aidan at php dot net
30-Aug-2004 12:29


If you want to copy a file, or an entire folder (including the contents), use the below function.





http://aidan.dotgeek.org/lib/?file=function.copyr.php

kadnan at yahoo dot com
29-Aug-2004 10:30


you can also try xcopy command by using Shell to move/copy files/folders from one place to another


here is the code:





<?php


exec('xcopy c:\\myfolder d:\\myfolder /e/i', $a, $a1);


?>





by executing this command, it will move folder along with all contents to destination.





-adnan

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