Copy entire contents of a directory to another using php

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I tried to copy the entire contents of the directory to another location using   copy   old location       new location       but it says it cannot find stream  true     is not found   Any other way  Thanks Dave

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Long-winded  commented example with return logging  based on parts of most of the answers here  It is presented as a static class method  but could work as a simple function also         Recursive copy directories and content         link        https   stackoverflow com a 2050909 591486     since       4 7 2    public static function copy recursive   source   null   destination   null   amp  log                  is directory        if   is dir   source                 log      is dir     source              log results of mkdir call             log       mkdir   quot    destination   quot        mkdir   destination                get source directory contents             source directory   dir   source                loop over items in source directory            while   FALSE        entry    source directory- gt read                                     skip hidden                if    entry            entry                               log      skip hidden entry     entry                   continue                                 get full source  quot entry quot  path                 source entry    source          entry                   recurse for directories                if   is dir   source entry                         log      is dir     source entry                      return to self  with new arguments                    self  copy recursive   source entry   destination      entry   log                        break out of loop  to stop processing                    continue                               log      copy   quot    source entry   quot  -- gt   quot    destination      entry   quot                    copy single files                copy   source entry   destination      entry                           close connection             source directory- gt close           else             log      copy   quot    source   quot  -- gt   quot    destination   quot                plain copy  as  destination is a file            copy   source   destination                   clean up log         log   array unique   log            kick back log for debugging        return  log      Call like     call method     log    namespace to method  copy recursive   source   destination        write log to error file - you can also just dump it on the screen    error log  var export   log  true

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As described here  this is another approach that takes care of symlinks too          Copy a file  or recursively copy a folder and its contents     author      Aidan Lister  lt aidan php net gt      version     1 0 1     link        http   aidanlister com 2004 04 recursively-copying-directories-in-php      param       string    source    Source path     param       string    dest      Destination path     param       int       permissions New folder creation permissions     return      bool     Returns true on success  false on failure     function xcopy  source   dest   permissions   0755         sourceHash   hashDirectory  source          Check for symlinks     if  is link  source             return symlink readlink  source    dest                 Simple copy for a file     if  is file  source             return copy  source   dest                 Make destination directory     if   is dir  dest             mkdir  dest   permissions                 Loop through the folder      dir   dir  source       while  false      entry    dir- gt read                 Skip pointers         if   entry            entry                        continue                        Deep copy directories         if  sourceHash    hashDirectory  source      entry                 xcopy   source  entry     dest  entry    permissions                           Clean up      dir- gt close        return true        In case of coping a directory inside itself  there is a need to hash check the directory otherwise and infinite loop of coping is generated  function hashDirectory  directory       if    is dir  directory    return false          files   array         dir   dir  directory        while  false       file    dir- gt read              if   file        and  file                        if  is dir  directory          file      files     hashDirectory  directory          file                 else    files     md5 file  directory          file                           dir- gt close         return md5 implode      files

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using exec  function rCopy  directory   destination          command   sprintf  cp -r  s    s    directory   destination        exec  command

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function full copy   source   target         if   is dir   source                mkdir   target             d   dir   source            while   FALSE        entry    d- gt read                     if    entry            entry                             continue                             Entry    source          entry               if   is dir   Entry                       full copy   Entry   target          entry                    continue                            copy   Entry   target          entry                        d- gt close         else           copy   source   target

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I had a similar situation where I needed to copy from one domain to another on the same server  Here is exactly what worked in my case  you can as well adjust to suit yours   foreach glob     folder   php   as  file     adjust   substr  file 3   copy  file    home user abcde com    adjust     Notice the use of  substr     without it  the destination becomes   home user abcde com    folder    which might be something you don t want  So  I used substr   to eliminate the first 3 characters      in order to get the desired destination which is   home user abcde com folder    So  you can adjust the substr   function and also the glob   function until it fits your personal needs  Hope this helps

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The best solution is    lt  php  src     home www domain-name com source folders 123456    dest     home www domain-name com test 123456    shell exec  cp -r  src  dest     echo   lt H3 gt Copy Paste completed  lt  H3 gt      output when done   gt

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Full thanks must go to Felix Kling for his excellent answer which I have gratefully used in my code  I offer a small enhancement of a boolean return value to report success or failure   function recurse copy  src   dst        dir   opendir  src      result     dir     false   false   true      if   result     false         result    mkdir  dst        if   result     true          while false        file   readdir  dir                if     file           amp  amp     file            amp  amp   result               if   is dir  src          file                    result   recurse copy  src          file  dst          file                    else                 result   copy  src          file  dst          file                                           closedir  dir                return  result

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I clone entire directory by SPL Directory Iterator    function recursiveCopy  source   destination        if   file exists  destination             mkdir  destination               splFileInfoArr   new RecursiveIteratorIterator new RecursiveDirectoryIterator  source   RecursiveIteratorIterator  SELF FIRST        foreach   splFileInfoArr as  fullPath   gt   splFileinfo              skip              if  in array  splFileinfo- gt getBasename                                continue                      get relative path of source file or folder          path   str replace  source       splFileinfo- gt getPathname              if   splFileinfo- gt isDir                  mkdir  destination          path             else           copy  fullPath   destination          path                      calling the function recursiveCopy   DIR       source     DIR       destination

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My pruned version of  Kzoty answer  Thank you Kzoty   Usage  Helper  copy  sourcePath   targetPath    class Helper        static function copy  source   target            if   is dir  source      it is a file  do a normal copy             copy  source   target               return                       it is a folder  copy its files  amp  sub-folders          mkdir  target            d   dir  source            navFolders   array                     while  false       fileEntry  d- gt read         copy one by one               skip if it is navigation folder   or                if  in array  fileEntry   navFolders                      continue                               do copy              s     source  fileEntry                t     target  fileEntry               self  copy  s   t                      d- gt close

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Like said elsewhere  copy only works with a single file for source and not a pattern  If you want to copy by pattern  use glob to determine the files  then run copy  This will not copy subdirectories though  nor will it create the destination directory   function copyToDir  pattern   dir        foreach  glob  pattern  as  file            if  is dir  file   amp  amp  is readable  file                  dest   realpath  dir   DIRECTORY SEPARATOR    basename  file               copy  file   dest                         copyToDir    test foo   txt      test bar       copies all txt files

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With Symfony this is very easy to accomplish    fileSystem   new Symfony Component Filesystem Filesystem     fileSystem- gt mirror  from   to     See https   symfony com doc current components filesystem html

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that worked for a one level directory  for a folder with multi-level directories I used this  public function recurseCopy  src  dst   childFolder            dir   opendir  src        mkdir  dst       if   childFolder                mkdir  dst      childFolder            while false        file   readdir  dir                    if     file           amp  amp     file                               if   is dir  src          file                            this- gt recurseCopy  src          file  dst      childFolder          file                                       else                        copy  src          file   dst      childFolder          file                                                      else                 return  cc           while false        file   readdir  dir                    if     file           amp  amp     file                               if   is dir  src          file                            this- gt recurseCopy  src          file  dst          file                                       else                        copy  src          file   dst          file                                                                 closedir  dir

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copy   only works with files   Both the DOS copy and Unix cp commands will copy recursively - so the quickest solution is just to shell out and use these  e g    cp -r  src  dest     Otherwise you ll need to use the opendir readdir or scandir to read the contents of the directory  iterate through the results and if is dir returns true for each one  recurse into it   e g   function xcopy  src   dest        foreach  scandir  src  as  file            if   is readable  src          file   continue          if  is dir  src         file   amp  amp    file          amp  amp    file                          mkdir  dest          file               xcopy  src          file   dest          file             else               copy  src          file   dest          file

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For Linux servers you just need one line of code to copy recursively while preserving permission   exec  cp -a    source      dest     Another way of doing it is   mkdir  dest   foreach   iterator   new  RecursiveIteratorIterator new  RecursiveDirectoryIterator  source   RecursiveDirectoryIterator  SKIP DOTS    RecursiveIteratorIterator  SELF FIRST  as  item        if   item- gt isDir            mkdir  dest DIRECTORY SEPARATOR  iterator- gt getSubPathName         else         copy  item   dest DIRECTORY SEPARATOR  iterator- gt getSubPathName         but it s slower and does not preserve permissions

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lt  php     function copy directory   source   destination             if   is dir   source                mkdir   destination             directory   dir   source            while   FALSE        readdirectory    directory- gt read                     if    readdirectory            readdirectory                             continue                             PathDir    source          readdirectory               if   is dir   PathDir                       copy directory   PathDir   destination          readdirectory                    continue                            copy   PathDir   destination          readdirectory                        directory- gt close             else           copy   source   destination                      gt    from the last 4th line   make this   source    wordpress    i e  your source path   and   destination   b

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