Copying files from one directory to another

Rulkster

I need to copy a file from one directory to another, but during the copy process I also want to rename the file so it overwrites the existing file in the destination directory.

Example:

Source file - home/contents/templates/template01.php

Dest dir - home/contents

Now I want to copy template01.php to dest directory and change it's name to: somename.php

Is there a few quick php codes to do this all in one script. I seem to be having a meltdown on how to accomplish this task.

Thanks for any help

AstroTeg

You might want to read the comments found on php.net about using the [man]copy[/man] command. I think you'll find several different ways to do what you want to do...

Rulkster

Thanks astrotag, but i tried it and it does not seem to work:

<?php
if (!copy($file, $file.'.bak')) {
echo "failed to copy $file...<br />\n";
}
?>

Where i tried to replace $file with the directory path home/$file. It does not like this and gives an error

Also, no mention of the renaming aspect like I stated above.

Thanks

AstroTeg

Depends on the error your getting, but it could be a permissions issue. Make sure PHP has write permission to the directory or file.

Rulkster

here is the error:

Warning: copy(templates/$savedchoice): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/local/www........ php on line 13
failed to copy ...

$savedchoice variable is set because I can echo it to the screen. It is the name of the file - template01.php

I thought maybe it wanted it in quotes so I did 'templates/$savedchoice') and ("templates/$savedchoice) but with both of these I get a parser error, it doesn't like the quotes in there.

Both directory permissions are set to 777 as well as the file itself.

AstroTeg

"templates/$savedchoice" (as found in the error message) is what the problem is. The $ is not a valid character for a directory. Plus, I'm guessing you want the value of $savedchoice and not the literal name to be used for the output. You have a quote issue somewhere. I recommend NOT using quotes for variables since people are pretty good about botching them up and making it harder to read and troubleshoot the code.