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Posted by Jochem Maas on 09/28/69 11:36
Jim Moseby wrote:
> Hi Jon, welcome.
>
>
>> I'm really new at PHP and will probably embarrass myself
>>many times over asking questions that have been asked
>>gazillions of times before, so let this serve as a blanket apology.
>
>
> You will get a cold response from the regulars on this list if you "ask
> questions that have been asked gazillions of times before". Friendly
> advice: always take a little time to search the archives of this list and
> google a bit to see if your question has already been answered. Can you
> imagine what this list would be like if every newbie asked the same
> questions every day? That said, on to your questions.
>
amen.
>
>> I'm not really asking for anyone to write the code for
>>me, but I am looking for suggestions for PHP functions to use
>>to accomplish the inspection of my local computer's folders.
>>I'd also need to know what additional information I'd need to
>>store in the database so that subsequent updates can be
>>automated (i.e., do I need to somehow store my IP address?).
>
>
> You will not be able to do what you propose with a purely PHP solution. PHP
> is a server-side technology. That means all the processing is done at the
> server, then output to your browser. PHP, to my knowledge, has no way to
> inspect your computer's folders. You would need to look to a client-side
er??? stick the following in a file (localfiles.php):
<?php
function readDirWin($dir) {
$d = dir($dir);
while (false !== ($entry = $d->read())) {
if($entry!="." && $entry!="..") {
echo ($entry = $dir."\\".$entry), "\n";
if(is_dir($entry)) {
readDirWin($entry);
}
}
}
$d->close();
}
var_dump( readDirWin("C:") );
?>
and call it like so:
C:\path\to\your\CLI\php.exe C:\path\to\your\localfiles.php
> technology, like Java, for that.
STOP RIGHT THERE - php might have been designed for spitting out webpages
and the like but these days you can run it as a general purpose scripting
language in all sorts of situations - including running a CLI version on
your windows desktop machine.
go here and install - not only will you have a CLI version of php
to play with - it will try to setup a webserver SAPI for whatever
webserver you have installed locally (within reason - personally
i only use Apache)
you can have a php script inspect your local machine by running
locally and stick its results in a database that lives on a machine
on the otherside of the world.
QUESTIONS:
1. what is the local machine?
2. where does the DB live? (is it a different machine?)
3. do you need reporting/information about the local machine
inspection anywhere other than the local machine?
4. will there be more than one local machine?
5. why do you want to do this?
>
> However, you can upload data to your website using PHP to process the
> uploaded file. So, at your convienience, you can have a "Browse" button on
> an update page that will allow you to browse and find your data to upload.
> After the upload you can have PHP process the uploaded file any way you
> wish.
>
> You can also use cron to kick off scheduled tasks with PHP CLI scripts that
> will, for instance, open an FTP connection to your machine and download data
> files to the server for processing.
windows also has a task scheduler ... how good it is I don't really know
Also I would suggest that it would be better for the local machine to
push data to a server than for the server to pull data from the
local machine.
>
> JM
>
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