Re: Parsing and organizing files in folder with PHP question

Hi, One way of doing this is with a command line script that you can run on the server where your content folder resides. To that end I would recommend reading through the following PHP manual links: - https://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.dir.php - functions for working with directories: specifically opendir, readdir and closedir - https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.filesystem.php - functions for working with the file system: specifically filemtime for determining the file age, pathinfo for determining the file type by extension, file_exists for determining if a file exists, copy and rename for copying/moving files You could/should test on some sample data before to make sure you get the desired outcome. Also don't forget to backup your data :) On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 8:20 PM Matthew Zand <dcwebmakers@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > I have a content folder on my website with more than few thousand images > and videos. I want to write php code to do following: > > 1- Read all files on the folder > > 2- Remove all files that are older than 2 years ago > > 3- Loop through all content files to check file type and save them in two > arrays (one for images and another for videos) > > 4- Merge new image array files with an existing image folder files but if > duplicate exists, override the older version of file. > > > > What is best way to achieve this? > > -- > Best, > > DC Web Makers <https://blockchain.dcwebmakers.com/> > Coding Bootcamps <https://coding-bootcamps.com/> > 240-200-6131 > 301-327-8773 >