iPhoto Library Manager (Revisited)

For anyone interested, attached below (in the Extended Entry) is the script I run nightly from cron that informs me by email when my current iPhoto Library is getting big enough to consider taking an action with iPhoto Library Manager to create a new one.

A couple of notes:

1. Yes, the script uses the CLI version of PHP. I’m much more familiar with the PHP language than I am with tools like Perl.
2. The script uses the knowledge that I name my iPhoto Libraries according to the form “iPhoto-Library-20030521”, so that the last entry in a directory listing is the currently used Library (and the one whose size should be calculated).

3. I’ve removed the <? ?> PHP delimiters from the script example, to prevent execution when you view it (since my blog is parsed by PHP).

   #! /usr/local/bin/php [BEGIN PHP]

   $LibraryLocation = ‘/Users/mhenders/Pictures’; $LibraryPrefix = ‘iPhoto-‘; $MaxDesiredSize = 600; // in megabytes $to = ‘[email protected]’; $subject = ‘iPhoto Library Size Warning [makalup1]’;

   function getSubDirs($dir_name) { $subdirectories = array(); $files = array();

    if(is_dir($dir_name) and is_readable($dir_name)) {
        $d = dir($dir_name);
        while (false !== ($f = $d->read())) {
            // skip . and ..
            if (('.' == $f) || ('..' == $f)) {
                continue;
            }
            if (is_dir("$dir_name/$f")) {
                array_push($subdirectories,"$dir_name/$f");
            } else {
                array_push($files,"$dir_name/$f");
            }
        }
        $d->close();
    }
    return $subdirectories;  }
   

   $subdirectories = getSubDirs($LibraryLocation);

   foreach( $subdirectories as $subdir ) { if(ereg($LibraryLocation.”/”.$LibraryPrefix,$subdir)) { $output = exec(“du -sk “.$subdir); ereg(‘([0-9]+)’,$output,$size); $size = $size[0]; $foundLibrary = $subdir; } }

   $checkSize = round($size/1000,0); // convert KB to MB

   if($checkSize > $MaxDesiredSize) { $message = “iPhoto Library Size Warningn”; $message .= “===========================nn”; $message .= “Library: $foundLibraryn”; $message .= “ Size: $checkSize MBnn”; $message .= “(You specified to be notified when the “; $message .= “library size is greater than $MaxDesiredSize MB.)”;

    $subject .= " [$checkSize MB]";
   
    mail($to,$subject,$message);  }
   

   [END PHP]

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