Question

I’m writing a script that will grab several files and then copy them into a new directory. I’ve come up with two methods of doing this but want to know which is better.

1)

• store several file names in an array and use file_get_contents in a loop to get those files.
• same again, but using file_put_contents to copy these files to a new directory.

2)

• Store these files needed in a .ZIP file by default
• Use PHP to open this zip and extract the contents to the new folder.

I’m guessing that the ZIP method is better to use but I have no evidence to back that up. Can anyone advise me on what’s best?

Answer 1

Store the files to copy in an array and use PHP’s copy() function to copy the files to the desired directory.