Php: How can one automate a script to change dates everyday? [duplicate] - php

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#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
$username = "user";
$password = "pass";
$url = '10.168.8.666';
// Make our connection
$connection = ssh2_connect($url);
// Authenticate
if (!ssh2_auth_password($connection, $username, $password))
{echo('Unable to connect.');}
// Create our SFTP resource
if (!$sftp = ssh2_sftp($connection))
{echo ('Unable to create SFTP connection.');}
$localDir = 'file:///home/batman/Downloads/dbs';
$remoteDir = '/home/batbackup/Dropbox/dbs';
// download all the files
$files = scandir ('ssh2.sftp://' . $sftp . $remoteDir);
if (!empty($files)) {
foreach ($files as $file) {
if ($file != '.' && $file != '..') {
if (substr($file, 0, 11)=='07-Jun-2017'){
# code...
ssh2_scp_recv($connection, "$remoteDir/$file", "$localDir/$file");
}
}
}
}
?>
I use this script to download backups from an sftp server everyday but i ve to manually change the date (in bold) in the script everyday. Question: is there a way i can make the script to change the date automatically so that i can set up a cron job?

Answer 1

Use date().
date('d-M-Y')
It will become
#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
$username = "user";
$password = "pass";
$url = '10.168.8.666';
// Make our connection
$connection = ssh2_connect($url);
// Authenticate
if (!ssh2_auth_password($connection, $username, $password))
{echo('Unable to connect.');}
// Create our SFTP resource
if (!$sftp = ssh2_sftp($connection))
{echo ('Unable to create SFTP connection.');}
$localDir = 'file:///home/batman/Downloads/dbs';
$remoteDir = '/home/batbackup/Dropbox/dbs';
// download all the files
$files = scandir ('ssh2.sftp://' . $sftp . $remoteDir);
if (!empty($files)) {
foreach ($files as $file) {
if ($file != '.' && $file != '..') {
if (substr($file, 0, 11) == date('d-M-Y')) {
# code...
ssh2_scp_recv($connection, "$remoteDir/$file", "$localDir/$file");
}
}
}
}
?>
If you want it to always be, let's say, yesterday, you may use it with strtotime(), so
date('d-M-Y', strtotime('yesterday'))

Answer 2

Replace your date with
date('d-M-Y')
http://php.net/manual/fr/function.date.php
This will take server current time.