failed to download the latest files using PHP, ssh2 via SFTP - php

Question

#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
$username = "backup";
$password = "xxxxxxx";
$url = '192.168.1.100';
// 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/hhh/Downloads/dbs';
$remoteDir = '/home/backup/Dropbox/dbs';
// download all the files
$dir = ('ssh2.sftp://' . $sftp . $remoteDir);
$numberOfFiles = 10;
$pattern = '/\.(aes|AES)$/'; // check only file with these ext.
$newstamp = 2;
$newname = "";
if ($handle = opendir($dir)) {
while (false !== ($fname = readdir($handle))) {
// Eliminate current directory, parent directory
if (preg_match('/^\.{1,2}$/',$fname)) continue;
// Eliminate other pages not in pattern
if (! preg_match($pattern,$fname)) continue;
$timedat = filemtime("$dir/$fname");
$fils[$fname] = $timedat;
if ($timedat > $newstamp) {
$newstamp = $timedat;
$newname = $fname;
}
}
}
closedir ($handle);
arsort ($fils, SORT_NUMERIC);
sfor($i = 0; $i < $numberOfFiles ; $i++)
$fils2 = array_keys($fils);
$i = 0;
foreach($fils2 as $s){
$i++;
echo "$i " . $s . "<br>\n";
if($i == $numberOfFiles )break;
}
// $newstamp is the time for the latest file
// $newname is the name of the latest file
// print last mod.file - format date as you like
$rttp = ssh2_scp_recv($connection, "$remoteDir/$newname", "$localDir/$newname")
?>
I have been trying to download the latest FILES from a directory using sftp. I have only managed to download ONE file instead to 10. I also was able to tweak it to download all the files but that is not i what I was after.
I would like to make it work so that I can be able to download a certain X number of files.

Answer 1

#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
$username = "user";
$password = "password";
$url = "host ip";
// 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($connection))
{echo ('Unable to create SFTP connection.');}
//$dir
$localDir = "/path/to/localdir/".date('Y-m-d');
exec("mkdir -p '$localDir'");
echo $localDir;
$remoteDir = "/path/to/remotedir";
// 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')) {
//date('d-M-Y', strtotime('yesterday') #for retriving the previous day
# code...
// echo $file;
ssh2_scp_recv($connection, "$remoteDir/$file", "$localDir/$file");
}
}
}
}
?>
This downloads the latest files from a remote directory and creates a new local directory by date where it downloads the new remote files