OK I searched, but didn't find the answer

[ecroskey]

Is it possible to use fopen to change the filename once you close it? I have a file that needs to be uploaded daily and once I am done with it each day, I would like the date to be appended to the filename so the next day I don't have to manually rename the previous days file. Boy that sounds confusing just writing it.

But, is it possible that on fclose the filename has the date appended?

So say I upload orders.txt and load my page. When I am done, I want the orders.txt to automatically be renamed orders20031911.txt. See where I am going with this?

Thanks for All your help!

Regards,
Eric

[pjleonhardt]

There may or may not be.. I did a quick check through the Manual but didnt find anything.. but i did think of a work around.

After reading orders.txt you could create a newfile called whatever you want with the text of orders.txt and then delete orders.txt using unlink()

hth

[kobmat]

Why dont you just change the filename of the file when the is uploaded. When you upload a file, info about that file is contained on the $FILES array. for example you have an input field of type "file" which is named "pcfile". on the $FILES array

$_FILES['pcfile'] contains for members

$FILES['pcfile']['name'] -> true filename of the file
$FILES['pcfile']['tmp_name'] --> path to the tmp file on the server
...
...
The other info you dont need

when you upload file to a directory on the webroot you need to copy the tmp_file to the directory on the web root or whatever by running

copy ( $FILES['pcfile']['tmp_name'], '/path/to/file/'.$FILES['name'].date("Ydm", time());

im not really sure of the indexes of the $_FILES['pcfile'] array to be sure make a test php script that contains only the following

while(list($key, $value) = each($_FILES['pcfile']))
{
echo $key.': '.$value;
}

this will echo the indexes and the values of those indexes of $_FILES['pcfile'] array