Renaming problem

[eludlow]

I am having some problems with this script:

<?php

$datestring = date("dmy");
$oldfile = "backup_forum.sql";
$newfile = "backup_forum" . $datestring . ".sql";

rename ("backup_forum.sql", "backup_forum'$datestring'.sql");

?>

It's returning this error:

Warning: rename(backup_forum.sql,backup_forum'040604'.sql): Permission denied in /home/www/ElburdNDL/backups/adddate.php on line 7

What's the problem then? I've tried CHMODing all the files to 777 but this doens't improve things.

Many thanks,
Ed Ludlow

[hessian]

May be a dumb question... So sorry if so.

You have chmod'd the files, but did you chmod the directory to allow the webserver to create a new file in the directory.

I tested your script and it worked fine on my machine.