rename directory

[michalopek100]

how to rename directory using php (i know only these commands mkdir, dirname, ..) ,
thx

[Weedpacket]

Then you should look through the Filesystem functions in the manual to see what others there are, shouldn't you; think of it as an opportunity to enrich yourself.

Perhaps the [man]rename[/man] function could help.

[michalopek100]

you are absolutely right, man
but rename is to rename files (there is nothing about renaming directories)
by the way, I was looking threw filesystem functions because it is much easier then to wait for sb's reply,
so will you help me

[planetsim]

Im not sure if it said anything in the manual but rename only does files. As far as i can remember.

If you read th user comments there maybe one that either says it can be done and shown what they did or agree to what i said

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by michalopek100
you are absolutely right, man
but rename is to rename files (there is nothing about renaming directories)

There is, too. I'm looking at it right now.

[michalopek100]

you are right

one ot the post:

d_roma at hotmail dot com
26-Sep-2000 08:24

Also, you can rename a directory. Just use rename ($old_dir, $new_dir);

thanks

[lnfreish]

if you move a file from one place to another place,such as
rename("c:/test1.txt","d:/test2.txt");
will move c:/text1.txt and rename it to test2.txt

but you can't use it to rename a directory
such as:
rename("c:/testdir1","d:/testdir2"); will return a error message

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by lnfreish
if you move a file from one place to another place,such as
rename("c:/test1.txt","d:/test2.txt");
will move c:/text1.txt and rename it to test2.txt

but you can't use it to rename a directory
such as:
rename("c:/testdir1","d:/testdir2"); will return a error message

But rename"c:/testdir1/","c:/testdir2/") will work - because it's not needing to "move" the whole directory - contents and all - from one partition to another. But then Windows has a different idea about directories.