opening folder and copy files in it

[mohamad_1978]

i have folder www/mywebsite/html/copy
in this file there is alot of files and folders

i want to open new folder here

www/mywebsite/html/the_name_of_new_folder

and copy what inside copy to the new folder

this is my code

$dir=$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);

where is
$INSTALL_PATH = www/mywebsite/html/

and trim($url) = the_name_of_new_folder

...............

it is not working at all
it open the folder but it be empty and i didnt get errors

[stolzyboy]

you could always check out the copy() function

you may still have to opendir and put all files into an array, then
copy them over or something like that, but then you won't have
to worry about the exec commands since php has a built in
function

good luck

[mohamad_1978]

sorry i really dont know how to do what u say lol will u write the code if it is not too mutch ?

[stolzyboy]

this will move a file called filename.gif from folder old_data to new_data
and delete the one in the old_data

<?
copy("old_data/filename.gif", "/new_data/filename.gif");
unlink("old_data/filename.gif");
?>