help copy files

filn

can somebody tell me why this doesnt work:

im trying to take input from a form (works), create a directory based on that information (works) then copy 2 files from the setup directory to the new directory that was created from the form (doesnt work, copy files code is below):

where $home is the path to the directory that has the original files and $new is the path to the directory created by the first part of the script.

$blog_file_1 = "'$home' . '/' . 'blog1.php'";
$dest_file_1 = "'$new' . '/' . 'admin.php";
$blog_file_2 = "'$home' . '/' . 'blog2.php'";
$dest_file_2 = "'$new' . '/' . 'index.php";

copy($blog_file_1, $dest_file_1);
copy($blog_file_2, $dest_file_2);

thanks!

devinemke

copy($home . '/' . 'blog1.php', $new . '/' . 'admin.php'); 
copy($home . '/' . 'blog2.php', $new . '/' . 'index.php');

filn

the path has an extra '/' in it, its like 'dir//admin.php' i cant figure out how to get that extra / out or where it came from.

Warning: copy(/home/public_html/blog//admin.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/public_html/blog/new/addmenu.php on line 30

devinemke

if $home and $new already have the trasiling slash then...

copy($home . 'blog1.php', $new . 'admin.php'); 
copy($home . 'blog2.php', $new . 'index.php');

filn

i found the problem with the '/' it was because i had spelled the variables name wrong that had the directory name so it was coming up blank thus giving us the 2 /'s.

thanks for the copy help, works perfect!