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    copied!<p>I've been trying to get this done with no luck. I've got a php script that downloads and UNZIPS a file. No problem here.</p> <p>After that, I need to get the unzipped files and replace all the files of the root directory with the files on this folder. Problem is, the folder is in the root directory.</p> <p>Eg.: my directory is something like this</p> <pre><code>/ /folder 1 /folder 2 /folder 3 /file.php /file2.php etc... </code></pre> <p>After I run my download script I unzip the archive to a folder called update in the root of the dir</p> <pre><code>/update/--UNZIPED STUFF-- </code></pre> <p>I need to delete virtually all files/dirs from the root DIR excluding the update folder I guess and a couple of other files and then move the files/folders inside the update folder to the root of the dir.</p> <p>Any ideas?</p> <p><em><strong>UPDATE</em></strong></p> <p>Ok, so I've made a code that seems to be right but I get a lot of file permission to when using unlink or rename. How can I go about that?</p> <p>Here is the bit of code I've made</p> <pre><code> echo '&lt;table&gt;'; $updateContents = scandir('./'); foreach($updateContents as $number=&gt;$fileName){ if($fileName != 'update' &amp;&amp; $fileName != 'config.ini' &amp;&amp; $fileName != 'layout.php' &amp;&amp; $fileName != '..' &amp;&amp; $fileName != '.' &amp;&amp; $fileName != '.git' &amp;&amp; $fileName != '.gitignore'){ if(is_dir($fileName)){ moveDownload($fileName, 'old/'.$fileName); } else { if(rename($fileName, 'old/'.$fileName)){ echo '&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;'.$fileName.' moved successfully &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;font color="green"&gt;OK&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;'; } else { echo '&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Could not move file '.$fileName.'&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;font color="red"&gt;ERROR&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;'; } } } } echo '&lt;/table&gt;'; </code></pre> <p>and the moveDownload function is one I found here somewhere. It moves a non empty folder and it was slightly modified by me.</p> <pre><code>function moveDownload($src,$dst){ $dir = opendir($src); while(false !== ($file = readdir($dir))){ if (($file != '.') &amp;&amp; ($file != '..') &amp;&amp; ($file != 'config.ini') &amp;&amp; ($file != 'layout.php') &amp;&amp; ($file != 'sbpcache') &amp;&amp; ($file !='update')){ if (is_dir($src.'/'.$file)){ if(file_exists($dst.'/'.$file)){ rrmdir($dst.'/'.$file); } } if(@rename($src . '/' . $file, $dst . '/' . $file)){ echo '&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;'.$file.' moved successfully &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;font color="green"&gt;OK&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;'; } else { if(@chmod($src.'/'.$file, 0777)){ if(@rename($src . '/' . $file, $dst . '/' . $file)){ echo '&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;'.$file.' moved successfully &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;font color="green"&gt;OK&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;'; } else { echo '&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Could not move file '.$file.'&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;font color="red"&gt;ERROR RENAME&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;'; } } else { echo '&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Could not move file '.$file.'&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;font color="red"&gt;ERROR CHMOD&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;'; } } } } closedir($dir); } </code></pre> <p>I also do the same in the again but moving from the update folder.</p> <p>So basically, first instead of deleting things I am just moving them to a folder called old and then I try to move the new things in, but I get permission problems everywhere. Some files move, some don't, even if I have ' sudo chmod 777 -R'. Any ideas?</p>
 

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