One would say this ought to be easy and straightforward, but unfortunatly this is not entirely the case. Searching for it doesn't help as you don't get many usable hits. I hope it helps you.The script below will take two directories and compares them on a filecontents level (recursive). That means it checks whether a file exists in both dirs and if so whether the contents are equal. If either condition fails, the filename will be returned in $checkme.The script uses Linux' diff command. It works like this on my server. I can't guarantuee that it works the same on your server. I'm pretty sure it doesn't on a Windows. You're gonna have to check for yourself and find out.(Yes of course there are bigger classes and stuff, but sometimes you don't want to depend on them)PS. I'm not certain why the indentation doesn't show, the code should be contained in a
which shows tabs, spaces and returns. I'll check this out later.["; print_r($differences); echo "]
"; // now process each line foreach ($differences as $d) { // On the OS of my webserver, there are only two possible results: // 1 "Only in development/anotherdir: somefile.php" // and // 2 "Files development/anotherdir/somefile.php and release/anotherdir/somefile.php differ" // we now need to determine for each line, what type of line it is // nasty but easy, we explode the string, if it contains a colon it was of type 1 // in which case we want to combine the dir and filename // if the result is an array of size 1, there was no colon, and it was of type 2 if (sizeof($c = explode(": ",$d)) == 2) { // reporting file not present in one dir, $c[1] now contains the filename // the ": " is stripped with exploding, remove the userfriendly string from $c[0] // and implode $c with a slash to re-create the dir-file string $c[0] = str_ireplace("Only in ","",$c[0]); $f = implode("/",$c); // echo "Missing file: $f"; // debug } else { // reporting of changes in files // this one returns both directory names, but they ought to be equal // when the search-dirs $dir1 and $dir2 are removed, and thats the only part // we want anyways, so: $c = explode(" and ",$d); $f = str_ireplace(" differ","",$c[1]); // echo "Difference in files: ".$f.""; // debug } // strip the two search-dirs // we prefix a space to the filename to ensure we only remove it // from the start. Just in case the searchpath occurs twice. // (This explicitly requires no spaces in your filenames. If you // do require spaces, you can obviously replace the space by // another character...) $f = str_ireplace(" software/statsscript/dev/",""," ".$f); $f = str_ireplace(" software/statsscript/release/",""," ".$f); // echo "Filename: $f"; // debug $checkme[] = $f; } // end foreach } // at this point, checkme should contain all the files that either differ or // do not exist in one of the two search directories?>