Recursively Copying Directory

October 12th, 2008 | email this | digg it

Leave your comment Posted by Anirban Bhattacharya

A small code snippet, which is very common yet useful. Let’s write a function which will copy a folder/directory and its contents (including subfolders, files) from one place to other.

public static function copyFolder($source,$dest) { // recursive function
   if(is_dir( $source)) { // if its directory
           @mkdir($dest); //make it
           $d = dir($source); // create directory object
           while(FALSE!==($entry=$d-&gt;read())) { // read each file of directory
               if($entry=='.' || $entry == '..') { //exclude root and parent
                  continue;
               }
              $newentry = $source . '/' . $entry;  // get sub
              if(is_dir($newentry)) { // if sub is directory
                  self::copyFolder($newentry,$dest.'/'.$entry); // then go recursive
                  continue;
              }
              copy($newentry, $dest.'/'.$entry ); //else copy file
           }
           $d-&gt;close();
        }
        else {
          copy($source,$dest); // copy file
        }
  }