open folder and copy files

[mohamad_1978]

i try to open folder and copy files inside this folder
this code open the folder fine but not copy the file see it plz and tell me whats wrong

	

$dir=$INSTALL_PATH.trim($url);
mkdir($dir, 0777);			


$exec="cp -R ".$INSTALL_PATH."copy/* ".$INSTALL_PATH.trim($url)."/";
exec($exec);

$exec="chmod -R a+Xrw ".$INSTALL_PATH.trim($url)."/";
exec($exec);

[Mordecai]

Try using copy() instead, so you'll get the PHP error, rather than what it might give you using exec().

[mohamad_1978]

and u plz rewrite the code for me ?

[Mordecai]

copy($INSTALL_PATH."copy/".$file,$dir);, where $file is a single file. You'll have to loop through every file in the directory:

$dir = opendir($INSTALL_PATH."copy/");
while ($file = readdir($dir)) {
  copy($INSTALL_PATH."copy/".$file,$dir);
}
closedir($dir);

[mohamad_1978]

it is not work at all

[Mordecai]

Well, what's wrong with it?

[mohamad_1978]

it not give me any error it just open the folder right but it not copy the file from the folder (copy) to the folder i made

[Mordecai]

What is $INSTALL_PATH? That might be where the problem lies.

[mohamad_1978]

i defind this before for the place in the server i want to open the folder

[Mordecai]

Try using copy() or die() to see if it's erroring out.

[mohamad_1978]

i dont get any error 😕 😕 same thing

[mohamad_1978]

what im sure about is the wrong in these 2 lines

$exec="cp -R ".$INSTALL_PATH."copy/* ".$INSTALL_PATH.trim($url)."/";
exec($exec);

where $INSTALL_PATH is = www/mysite/html/

and i want to copy files from this folder

www/mysite/html/copy

to this file

www/mysite/html/the_new_folder

and trim($url) is = the_new_folder