Question

I have this PHP code to copy files from one directory to another and it works GREAT, however, how do I copy ONLY files ending with the letters “AUW” (minus quotes)? Keep in mind that the file is extensionless so it really ends with the letters AUW.

Also after copying I don’t want the files to be deleted from the source folder.

// Get array of all source files
$files = scandir("sourcefolder");
// Identify directories
$source = "sourcefolder/";
$destination = "destinationfolder/";
// Cycle through all source files
foreach ($files as $file) {
  if (in_array($file, array(".",".."))) continue;
  // If we copied this successfully, mark it for deletion
  if (copy($source.$file, $destination.$file)) {
    $delete[] = $source.$file;
  }
}
// Delete all successfully-copied files
foreach ($delete as $file) {
  unlink($file);
}

Answer 1

foreach ($files as $file) {
  if (in_array($file, array(".",".."))) continue;
  if (!endsWith($file, "AUW")) continue;
  // If we copied this successfully, mark it for deletion
  if (copy($source.$file, $destination.$file)) {
    // comment the following line will not add the files to the delete array and they will
    // not be deleted
    // $delete[] = $source.$file;
  }
}

// comment the followig line of code since we dont want to delete
// anything
// foreach ($delete as $file) {
//   unlink($file);
// }

function endsWith($haystack, $needle)
{
    $length = strlen($needle);
    if ($length == 0) return true;

    return (substr($haystack, -$length) === $needle);
}