Question

How can I use Ant to execute each php file in a directory? The output for the php execution should overwrite the original file.

The directory is on a localhost webserver with php installed. I assume the solution would involve GET and have src point to the http equivalent of each file.

Some dynamic version of
c:/webroot/php/file1.php
c:/webroot/php/file2.php

translate into
get src=”localhost/php/file1.php”
get src=”localhost/php/file2.php”

and then have the output overwrite itself.

Answer 1

Why not use the php command line combined with the ANT apply task?

Something like:

<apply executable="C:\PHP5\php.exe">
    <arg value="-f"/>
    <fileset dir="c:/webroot/php" includes="*.php"/>
</apply>

It’s not clear to me why you want to overwrite your source files….

Update

Alternatively use an embedded groovy script

<fileset id="phpfiles" dir="c:/webroot/php" includes="*.php"/>

<groovy>
   project.references.phpfiles.each {
      def file = new File(it.toString())
      ant.get(src:"http://localhost/php/${file.name}", dest:"output/${file.name}")
   }
</groovy>