So I realized pretty quickly that manually updating a snarf site is quite annoying. I suppose it isn’t so bad if you’re Mr. Peck, but I just wrote a short little PHP script to go and update it for me.
They are as follows:
snarf.php Downloads a snarf XML file from a server, opens it, and downloads all of the projects listed inside of it. It then creates its own snarf.xml. Variables are on the top of the code, to download, right-click and save as…
create_snarf.php Goes through a non-recursive filename search through a directory, then creates a snarf.xml for it. It’s pretty easy to improve this one, but I never got around to it. Things for the future:
- Add recursion for folders
- Add folder-based categories
transfer.php This is the one that is both the simplest and the most time consuming. It reads a given snarf file, and downloads the projects. What took a really long time on this one was the “downloading” bit… It appears that PHP doesn’t have a built-in downloader that accepts inputs from my string… I just used wget in the end. Note: This will not maintain category structure while downloading, it all goes in ‘./’.
Currently, since Mr. Peck’s snarf isn’t back up yet, they are all coded to point at www.aeturnalus.com/snarf/snarf.xml. When the district’s server port gets opened up, I’ll point it at http://205.173.41.8/staff/peck_george/notemplate/apcssnarf/snarf.xml to mirror the snarf with one click.
Comments?
SEE. Mr. GENIUS. when the end of the year project thingy comes around, i’ll be sure to go to you for help !