By mrahman252003 on

I like to connect to remote FTP client and check if there is new files there on time to time basis.
If there are new files, I like to download it and send email to a person.
How can I do that? Is there any module?

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nevets’s picture

nevets commented

How does this relate to Drupal? What files are you checking for?

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mrahman252003 commented

It is related Drupal, I like to check when there the cron is executed probably by a custom module. Or by some other way (that I don't know if possible or not). I want to automate the process. Now I am doing manually. For this I created a cron monitor module and each cron run I do the FTP connection and transfer the files, but problems are there,

-not sure if it is right way to do that.
-I need to save password and ftp account in the php code, security?
-My theme changes due to this, not sure where is problem

Now can you advise me?

nevets’s picture

nevets commented

What files are you checking on?

mrahman252003’s picture

mrahman252003 commented

It can be any files/folders (txt, images). Idea if it is new then that should be downloaded to my site (in a local directory)

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Jaypan commented

You can implement hook_cron() which will be executed on Drupal cron runs. You can then use drupal_http_request() to make your FTP connection.

mrahman252003’s picture

mrahman252003 commented

Thanks, I tried to implement the module and it works with problem
-It changes my theme not sure why.
-I need to keep ftp password, is it safe to put it there in .module file?

I found another way running the php script with cron job provided by cpanel (https://www.drupal.org/node/369267)
It looks it is doing my work but again question where to store the ftp password?