rename problems

Anon

Hello,

I am having trouble using the rename()function and I was wondering if anyone could help me out. I'm trying to write a script to rename a jpg in an images subdirectory. Here's my code:

$old=realpath("images/$oldname.jpg");
$new=dirname($old)."/$newname.jpg";
rename($old,$new);

I have verified that $old and $new are the right source & destination filenames (and paths), and I have changed ownership of the files to nobody:nobody after determining that Apache was running as nobody. However, my rename() call always fails. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,
Tom

sethadam1

You could also try the exec() function, for example:

exec("mv $oldfile $newfile");

-Adam

Anon

That's not a bad idea... I'll try it and see if I run into permissions problems with that as well.

Thanks,
Tom

Anon

Unfortunately, that didn't work... the file still isn't being renamed. I suspect that it's some sort of permissions issue, but I have no idea what. The files in question are nested several directories deep... does each directory along the path need to be accessible to "nobody"?

Tom

sethadam1

Can you chmod the file?

You could even use the chmod() function to do it in PHP.

chmod($old, 777);
exec("mv $new $old");
chmod($new, 544); //or whatever permissions you want...

-Adam

sethadam1

sorry, that should read...

chmod($old, 777);
exec("mv $old $new");
chmod($new, 544); //or whatever permissions you want...