A library for syncing Wordpress folders. Can be used as part of a deployment system. Useful for deploying or pulling resources like the 'uploads' folder, since it likely contains files that the site depends on.

This project is meant to be a composable component. It does one thing, sync folders. If you want to do more, as part of a deployment system, then check out the other projects in the Wordpress\Deploy namespace.

• The rsync linux command is used to perform the sync. So, it must be available via the command-line. You'll get a RuntimeException if you try to call FolderSync::sync without the rsync command.

• All other dependencies are defined in composer.json.

curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php
php composer.phar require cullylarson/wp-deploy-folder-sync

Everything is done through an instance of the Wordpress\Deploy\FolderSync class.

The Wordpress\Deploy\FolderSync constructor takes three arguments:

• source The source folder. It must have a trailing slash (/).
• dest The destination folder. After the sync is run, the destination folder will match the source folder. It must have a trailing slash (/).
• options A set of options, described below.

These paths provided in the source and dest params can be any paths that the rsync command recognizes. So you can provide either remote or local paths. For example:

username@example.com:path/to/source/
relative/path/to/destination/
/absolute/path/to/destination/

The constructor accepts the following options:

• delete boolean (Default: true) Whether to delete files when syncing (e.g. if a file no longer exists at the source, then delete it from the destination).

• exclude array (Default: []) An array of patterns to exclude from the sync. See the rsync man page for details on --exclude.

The sync is performed by calling the Wordpress\Deploy\FolderSync::sync function. This will examine your source folder and dest folder, and will make any changes necessary so that your dest folder ends up just like your source folder. In this way, the folders will be synchronized.

<?php

class MyWordpressDeployer {
    public function deploy() {
        // ...
        
        $folderSync = new Wordpress\Deploy\FolderSync(
            "path/to/local/uploads/",
            "username@example.com:path/to/remote/uploads/",
            ['delete' => true, 'exclude' => ['.gitkeep']]);
            
        $folderSync->sync();
        
        // ...
    }
}

The Wordpress\Deploy\FolderSync::sync function can optionally accept a callback function. This callback will be called whenever the sync function wants to post a status update (e.g. "I'm running", "Here's the output of the rsync command", "Something went wrong", etc.). It allows you to have some control over whether and how messages are handled.

The callback must take one parameter, an instance of Wordpress\Deploy\FolderSync\Status.

Here's an example:

<?php

class MyWordpressDeployer {
    public function deploy() {
        // ...
        
        $statusCallback = function(Wordpress\Deploy\FolderSync\Status $status) {
            echo $status->Timestamp . " -- ";
            
            if( $status->isError() ) echo "ERROR: ";
            if( $status->isWarning() ) echo "WARNING: ";
            if( $status->isRawOutput() ) echo "================\n";
            
            echo $status->Message;
            
            if( $status->isRawOutput() ) echo "================\n";
        }
        
        $folderSync = new Wordpress\Deploy\FolderSync(
            "path/to/local/uploads/",
            "username@example.com:path/to/remote/uploads/");
            
        $folderSync->sync($statusCallback);
        
        // ...
    }
}