Never tried it though: learn to use (L|U)nix's TAR command, and then execute it from your PHP script with options that allow TAR to recurse into directories and stuff. then copy that TARed file from source dir to dest. dir, and then untar it back again.
good luck. "Christoph Starkmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message B120D7EC8868D411A63D0050040EDA771118FF@XCHANGE">news:B120D7EC8868D411A63D0050040EDA771118FF@XCHANGE... > Hi there! > > I got the following problem: > > I want to "mirror" a complete directory tree. Now I traverse > the original tree, do changes to some of the files and want to > write the resulting files to a parallel directory. > > Lets say $INPUT_PATH is the source path and $OUTPUT_PATH is > where I want to put the copies. > $file is the path o the current file. > > Now I tried to do the following: > > //...snip... > > $outfileName = ereg_replace($INPUT_PATH, $OUTPUT_PATH, $file); > $OUTFILE = fopen($outfileName, "w") || die ("Oooops, couldn't open $file); > > // ... more blahblah... > > fclose($OUTFILE); > > But now I got an error: > > Warning: fopen("path/directory/template.html","w") - No such file or > directory in filename.php on line 231 > > Okay, I hoped PHP would create the directory, too, along with creating > the file Iwant to write to when it doesn't exist. > > When I try to create the directory "manually" using > > mkdir("path/directory", 0777) || die ("Yet another ugly death..."); > > I get yet another ugly error: > > Warning: MkDir failed (No such file or directory) in filename.php on line 29 > > Why is this? Of course there is no such file or directory... If there was, I > wouldn't have to create one ;) > > Any ideas? Hints? > > Every tidy bit of wisom is appreciated... > > Cheers, > > Kiko > > ----- > It's not a bug, it's a feature. > christoph starkmann > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~kiko > ICQ: 100601600 > ----- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
