I was in need to synchronize two folders on two separate servers, one is a Windows server, and the other is a Linux server. I created this short and sweet function to help me do this. PLEASE NOTICE: This will not copy folders, and probably will fail if remote folder contains anything else than files.
function sync_folders($host, $port, $username, $password, $remote_dir, $local_dir, $passive_mode = true) {
$conn_id = ftp_connect($host, $port);
if (!$conn_id) return false; # fail to connect
if (!ftp_login($conn_id, $username, $password)) { ftp_close($conn_id); return false; } # fail to login
ftp_pasv($conn_id, $passive_mode);
if (!ftp_chdir($conn_id, $remote_dir)) { ftp_close($conn_id); return false; } # fail to change dir
if (substr($local_dir, -1) != '/') $local_dir .= '/';
$list = ftp_nlist($conn_id, '.');
sort($list);
foreach ($list as $file) {
if (!file_exists($local_dir . $file)) {
$is_copied = ftp_get($conn_id, $local_dir . $file, $file, FTP_BINARY);
}
}
ftp_close($conn_id);
return true;
}