The following issues are not really PHP issues, but more properly FTP
server issues, but perhaps people on the list have some ideas on how to
solve my problems.
I've written a PHP program to "mirror" data on a local drive to a remote
FTP server. It compares file mod times, and only uploads files that are
newer. Works like a charm. Except ---
The remote FTP server is running on a Fedora LINUX system, but I think any
server would present the same issues.
To examine the remote directories, I use ftp_rawlist() to get a directory
listing which I parse. However, the file modification time does not have a
year, and does not show the seconds. I get around this by "assuming" the
year is the current one, and then compare the file times of the local and
remote files ignoring local file seconds. If they are different, I use
ftp_mdtm() to get the real remote time, and then do my compare. This slows
things down a bit, as I have to go to the FTP server one more time.
Any thoughts on how to get around this? Is there a way to get a better
directory listing?
Second and more serious problem is that when I FTP the file to the server,
the file mod time gets set to the current (file-creation) time. The same
thing happens in a local-to-local file copy using copy(), but I can use
touch() to update the mod time.
Any thoughts on how I might get the remote FTP server to do the equivalent
of touch()?
I realize that these are not actual PHP problems, but maybe one of you has
run across similar issues.
Many thanks.
Larry Bradley
Orleans (Ottawa), Ontario, CANADA
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