Recursive Copy of Directory

Question

On my old VPS I was using the following code to copy the files and directories within a directory to a new directory that was created after the user submitted their form.

Answer 1

The Symfony's FileSystem Component offers a good error handling as well as recursive remove and other useful stuffs. Using @OzzyCzech's great answer, we can do a robust recursive copy this way:

use Symfony\Component\Filesystem\Filesystem;

// ...

$fileSystem = new FileSystem();

if (file_exists($target))
{
    $this->fileSystem->remove($target);
}

$this->fileSystem->mkdir($target);

$directoryIterator = new \RecursiveDirectoryIterator($source, \RecursiveDirectoryIterator::SKIP_DOTS);
$iterator = new \RecursiveIteratorIterator($directoryIterator, \RecursiveIteratorIterator::SELF_FIRST);
foreach ($iterator as $item)
{
    if ($item->isDir())
    {
        $fileSystem->mkdir($target . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $iterator->getSubPathName());
    }
    else
    {
        $fileSystem->copy($item, $target . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $iterator->getSubPathName());
    }
}

Note: you can use this component as well as all other Symfony2 components standalone.