Variable Extensions

Anon

I currently have a form that lets people upload files.

I would like the file to be renamed to their username once it is uploaded. The best I can get it is to keep the original filename. Now I can do a

exec("cp $file /path/to/file/$file_name");

but the problem is that when I do it like

exec("cp $file /path/to/file/$username");

it loses the file extension... Is there a way around this to rename it and then save it?

Anon

sure..this is an easy one even...explode filename on . parse out the extension, and and it to username--here is the basic idea --some changes may need to be made depending on your circumstances--
$nf=explode(".",$filename);
$ext=$nf[1];
exec("cp $file /path/to/file/$username.$ext");

Hope this helps
Darren

Anon

An even better bet would be to make sure that you have the last element of the array.

$nf = explode(".", $filename);
$extension = $nf[count($nf) - 1];

exec("cp $file /path/to/file/$username.$extension");

Anon

Thanks...

Now I just need to figure out how to "SELECT"
my ID (primary key) without it saying "resource #3"

🙂

matto

look up the db function pages on www.php.net -> documentation for your database. usually there's a lot of examples provided by users.