How do you rename files using PHP 5.2.0 for WinXP?

[ppowell]

I can't use the rename() command, apparently that fails in WinXP. So how do you do it in PHP?

Right now I'm using:

$msg = exec("move /Y \"" . $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/tools/app/include/file1.jpg\" \"" . $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/tools/app/include/filenew1.jpg\"");

No errors, no warnings, no notices, just a file not ever named and an Apache error log "The system could not find the file specified", even though I clearly see file1.jpg in my directory unchanged.

So what do I do?

Thanx
Phil

[ClarkF1]

Have you tried the rename function???

You could use copy() and then unlink() on the old file.

You could try this from php.net:

function rename_win($oldfile,$newfile) {
   if (!rename($oldfile,$newfile)) {
     if (copy ($oldfile,$newfile)) {
         unlink($oldfile);
         return TRUE;
     }
     return FALSE;
   }
   return TRUE;
}

[ppowell]

Thanx but I am going to need something a lot more efficient than this as the app I'm building will be potentially moving thousands of images at one time. 🙁

[bradgrafelman]

How is that code less efficient than running a separate Windows program via exec() ? If you timed exec() vs. rename() in moving files, rename() would probably win.

EDIT: Besides, the real bottleneck here is probably going to be the hard drive.