PHP

FTP Non-Recursive Sync Directory (Download)

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Download files from the server that have filenames matchhing a pattern, and don't yet exist in a local directory. Chilkat2 PHP

<?php

use Chilkat2\Ftp2;
use Chilkat2\StringTable;

// This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$ftp = new Ftp2();

$ftp->Hostname = 'ftp.example.com';
$ftp->Username = 'myUsername';
$ftp->Password = 'myPassword';
$ftp->Port = 21;
$ftp->AuthTls = true;

// Connect and login to the FTP server.
try {
    $ftp->Connect();

    // Change to the remote directory where the files are located.
    // This step is only necessary if the files are not in the root directory
    // of the FTP account.
    $ftp->ChangeRemoteDir('qa');

    // Indicate that we only want to download files with filenames ending in ".txt"
    $ftp->SyncMustMatch = '*.txt';

    // Modes for synchronization are as follows:
    // mode=0: Download all files
    // mode=1: Download all files that do not exist on the local filesystem.
    // mode=2: Download newer or non-existant files.
    // mode=3: Download only newer files. If a file does not already exist on the local filesystem, it is not downloaded from the server.
    // mode=5: Download only missing files or files with size differences.
    // mode=6: Same as mode 5, but also download newer files.
    // mode=99: Do not download files, but instead delete remote files that do not exist locally.
    $mode = 1;

    // Download all files matching "*.txt" from the current remote ftp directory.
    // The files are downloaded into c:/temp/qa_output
    $ftp->SyncLocalDir('c:/temp/qa_output', $mode);
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

// Perhaps we wish to delete the files we just downloaded from the server..
$st = new StringTable();
$ftp->GetSyncedFiles($st);

$numFiles = $st->Count;
$i = 0;
$remoteFilename = '';
while ($i < $numFiles) {
    $remoteFilename = $st->StringAt($i);
    echo 'Deleting ', $remoteFilename, " from the FTP server\n";
    try {
        $ftp->DeleteRemoteFile($remoteFilename);
    } catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
        echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
        exit;
    }

    $i = $i + 1;
}

$ftp->Disconnect();