Mirroring web content with a PHP utility

[jimoblak]

I'm working on an animal shelter web site that is hosted locally to maintain an animal managament database and at a remote, public server to show the public images of the available animals. The local site contains a folder of JPG images of pets. I would like to mirror the contents of this folder to the public web site.

My intent is to have PHP compare the contents of the local folder to the remote folder whenever an image is added to or deleted from the local folder. I understand the PHP functions that check if file exists and move files but was wondering if anyone knew of a premade script that I could learn from. This seems like a task that must have been done before, and by someone with a better clue than myself.

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[sleipnir214]

Although you could do it in PHP, why reinvent the wheel? There's a lot of good free file syncronization software out there, some of which that can do the sync by FTP.

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[jimoblak]

I'm familiar with some freeware apps for OSX but this will be on a Windows local server. Have you any recommendations for Windows?

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[sleipnir214]

I don't know, particularly if you're looking for free (as in gratis) software.

You might try SynchronEX (

http://www.xellsoft.com/SynchronEX.html)

There's another called FolderMatch that actually is confident enough in their software that they maintain a page with links to competitors' software:

http://www.foldermatch.com/fmcompetitors.htm

. It doesn't do FTP sync, though.




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