iOS FTP

[endernafi]

Dave thank you very much,

It costed me a night, but I've managed it.
I wrote a simple php script which lists the files and folders,
and called it with put url ("") into sentence.
Then a little iteration & enumeration and voila;
it worked like a charm

Thanks again,


Best,

~ Ender Nafi

[endernafi]

Oh and,
if someone needs same kind of functionality, here are my codes:

LiveCode:

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on updateTheContent
   if isThereConnection() then
      put url ("http://www.example.com/mobileapp/theContent/listTheFiles.php") into theFileList
      replace "<br>" with return in theFileList
      replace "../theContent/" with empty in theFileList
      repeat for each line theFile in theFileList
         put "http://www.example.com/mobileapp/theContent/" & theFile into theSource
         put getTheLocation() & "myTemp" into theTempFile
         put getTheLocation() & "theContent/" & theFile into theTarget
         libUrlDownloadToFile theSource, theTempFile
         if ((there is a file theTempFile) and (calcTheFileSize(getTheLocation(), "myTemp") > 0)) then
            #answer "file downloaded"
            delete file theTarget
            #answer "old file deleted"
            put url("binfile:" & theTempFile) into url("binfile:" & theTarget)
            #answer "new file written"
            delete file theTempFile
            #answer "temp file deleted"
         end if
      end repeat
end updateTheContent

and PHP:

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<?php 
ob_start(); 
session_start();
$theFolderArray=array();
$theFolderArray[0] = "../theContent";

$theFolderCount = count($theFolderArray);
for ($i=0;$i<$theFolderCount;$i++) {
	$theFolder=$theFolderArray[$i];
	$theFileArray = array();
	$open = opendir($theFolder);
	while($theFile=readdir($open)) {
		if ($theFile != "." && $theFile != "..") {
			if(is_file("$theFolder/$theFile")){
				$theFileArray[] = $theFile;
			}
		}
	}
	$theFileCount = count($theFileArray);
	closedir($open);
	for ( $i=0 ; $i < $theFileCount ; $i++ ) { 
		echo "$theFolder/$theFileArray[$i]<br>";
	}
}
?>

Regards,

~ Ender Nafi Elekçioğlu

[dave_probertGA6e24]

Hi Ender,

Excellent. Glad I could help a bit.

Nice piece of code - you could change the "<br>" bit to use "\n" (slash - n = newline) in the PHP (near the end) - that would save you the replace in LC. It's only a tiny change though and might not be worth it if you prefer readability of the data itself.

I'm happy to see you exploring the integration of the 2 languages in this way. I've been a PHP programmer for 10 years and find it invaluable when working with server-side data (files or database). I'm sure others feel the same way about their favourite Server-Side languages too.

Cheers,
Dave

[Klaus]

Yep, that's what I wanted to propose, too!

Put a little "filelisting.php" script into that folder, so you can GET the content of that folder via HTTP
and then loop through these files via FTP and download them.


Best

Klaus

[trevix]

I restart this post because I have a similar problem: download a hole folder from "MY" web site.
Actually, in order to list the content of a directory, I am using TsNet with this code (works on OSX and mobile). No PHP needed:

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function ListWebFolderContent
     --gWebMirror is a global array with gWebMirror["username"]["xxx"] and gWebMirror["password"]["yyy"]
     tsNetSetTimeouts 30, 0, 5000, 60000, 30, 1000
     put tsNetCustomSync("ftp://ftp.mydomain.it//www.mydomain.it/myfolder/", "NLST", tHeaders, tRecvHeaders, tResult, tBytes,gWebMirror["settings"]) into tData
     if tResult is not 226 then --something is wrong
          put tResult & cr & tRecvHeaders into msg
     else --got list of myfolder content
          filter lines of tData where char 1 of each <> "." --directory list contains a few "." and ".."
          if tData is empty then
               put "The folder is empty" & cr & tResult & cr & tRecvHeaders into msg
          else
               return tData
          end if
     end if
end ListWebFolderContent

My user case is that my standalone, when needed, is updating itself downloading from my web site a folder, which replace the existing one inside the standalone.
The content of the folder is mixed (files and folders) and around 40MB.
I am wondering which is the best way for the download: should I have the web folder zipped and unzip it on arrival? Or using TsNet I may be able to download a "hole" unzipped folder?
UnZipping on LC10 takes a while and I would avoid that.

[trevix]

Update.
I spent the old day but I was able to download files and folders contents from my web space, using tsNetGetFile (from the lesson) and a recursive script (to list each file directory). File by file, directory by directory, instead that a simpler unique folder download (which may be impossible I think).
Sort of...
While this is rather complex and not exactly fast in LC (compared to a FTP program like Transmit), my actual problem is that tsNetGetFile does not create the folders if the file to be saved has a directory like

"/Users/trevix/Desktop/Referi_/AppIcons/icon_57x57.png"

like it happens if you save a file using

put xx into URL "file:/Drive/Folder/File".

Creating all the empty folders directories before running the tsNetGetFile loop script, can be quite complicated (and I am not even started to understand eventual problems on mobiles).
Any suggestions?
Should I go back to Zip/unzip?