Auto generate copy actions

[igorw]

This script will auto generate modx copy actions for your files. Adjust the './root/' path.

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<?php
/**
*
* @copyright (c) 2008 evil3
* @license http://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php GNU Public License
*
*/

function modx_from_to($root, $dir = '')
{
   foreach (scandir($root . $dir) as $file)
   {
      if ($file != '.' && $file != '..' && $file != '.svn')
      {
         if (is_file($root . $dir . $file))
         {
            echo '<file from="root/' . $dir . $file . '" to="' . $dir . $file . '" />' . "\n";
         }
         else
         {
            modx_from_to($root, $dir . $file . '/');
         }
      }
   }
}

header('Content-type: text/plain');
modx_from_to('./root/');

?>

[EY]

This will copy X file to X location????!?!?

Wow nice job!

[EY]

Where do we put this file?

[igorw]

No, it will not copy the files.
It will generate the actions like this for your modx file:

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<file from="root/mod.php" to="mod.php" />

You run it on a local webserver.

[Lord Le Brand]

Yay! this will come so handy when I'm gonna release *Project ^^ thanks Igor

[harmlessgoat22]

No, it will not copy the files.
It will generate the actions like this for your modx file:

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<file from="root/mod.php" to="mod.php" />

You run it on a local webserver.

Ahh!!! I'm so mad!!! Yesterday or the day before I manually wrote out the copying for 110 files. I will never do that again !!!

[Lord Le Brand]

Ahh!!! I'm so mad!!! Yesterday or the day before I manually wrote out the copying for 110 files. I will never do that again !!!

Ouch!! here, have a beer on me:

[harmlessgoat22]

In the US, I am not old enough to drink. But I think I can on international boards.

[Lord Le Brand]

Hmm, just wondering if you should change this line:

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if ($file[0] != '.')

Because it also skips .htaccess files that might be needed, if I'm not mistaken.

[Mighty Gorgon]

That line only skips same level folder link.

I usually add also this:

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$file[0] != '..'

Because on linux based systems that is used for parent folders... so you prevent parsing of all parent folders as well. In Windows you should not have this issue.

.htaccess shouldn't be skipped... unless the file is hidden or you don't have the permission to list.

Also SCANDIR function requires PHP 5.

Please Igor correct me if I'm wrong.

EDIT:
I was wrong, I didn't read the code accurately.
Take a look at this for further reference:
http://it2.php.net/manual/en/function.scandir.php#81735

[Lord Le Brand]

No, the line will check the first character of the $file string, so it includes all files and folders starting with a dot, including '.', '..', '.svn', '.htaccess', etc.

I think something like this would do the trick:

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if ($file[0] != '.' || preg_match('#^\.ht#', $file))

[Mighty Gorgon]

There is always something to learn...

Thanks, I didn't know that you can automatically get the first char of the string by considering it an array.

You are right, I also checked with php.net and found exactly what you are saying.

http://it2.php.net/manual/en/function.scandir.php#81735

I'm going to edit my previous post then. Sorry for being so superficial.

[igorw]

Let me clear things up (leroy was correct).

$file is a string. You can access any character in a string using [n], so i do $file[0] to see what is in the first character of the string. If it's a dot, it will skip the file. This is my lazy way of skipping '.' and '..', but it will also skip '.htaccess'. So the right way to do it is:

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

The reason i did it though, was to also skip .svn folders (hidden folders used internally by svn), so i'm going to add a check for that specifically.

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

Thanks guys, hope that clears it up in case it wasn't already.