PHP: How do I avoid reading partial files that are pushed to me with FTP?

Question

Files are being pushed to my server via FTP. I process them with PHP code in a Drupal module. O/S is Ubuntu and the FTP server is vsftp.

At regular intervals I will

Answer 1

I guess you've solved your problem years ago but still.

If you use some pattern to find the files you need you can ask the party uploading the file to use different name and rename the file once the upload has completed.