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rename file fails, PHP Cookbook rename recipe doesn't work
fortesque

7 Nov, 2009 - 09:02 AM
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I'm tring to use rename file code from PHP Cookbook. Here's the PHP cookbook code.
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Example 24-18. Moving a file
<?php
$old = ' /tmp/today. txt';
$new = ' /tmp/tomorrow. txt';
rename($old, $new) or die("couldn' t move $old to $new: $php_errormsg");
?>


and here's how I have tried to use this code snippet.
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<?php

$old =('http://www.headacheanalysis.com/reports/saved_test.html');

$new = ('http://www.headacheanalysis.com/reports/saved_test_2.html');

rename($old, $new) or die("couldn' t move $old to $new: $php_errormsg");

?>


However, I get the following error message. Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?

"couldn' t move http://www.headacheanalysis.com/reports/saved_test.html to http://www.headacheanalysis.com/reports/saved_test_2.html: "
Many thanks
John B

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RE: Rename File Fails

7 Nov, 2009 - 09:19 AM
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HTTP URLs are not supported in rename(). Also, no parenthesis in the old and new strings. Why do you have them there? You have to use file paths on the given system. Notice how the cookbook example uses a relational path, not a full URL. If www.headacheanalysis.com is the host you are running your script on, make sure the script is in the "reports" folder and use...

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<?php

$old ='saved_test.html';

$new = 'saved_test_2.html';

rename($old, $new) or die("couldn' t move $old to $new: $php_errormsg");

?>


Or if you want you can have the PHP in the root folder and then in that case you would use...


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<?php

$old ='/reports/saved_test.html';

$new = '/reports/saved_test_2.html';

rename($old, $new) or die("couldn' t move $old to $new: $php_errormsg");

?>


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thanks for the help. Got the rename script to work by including it in the /reports/directory as you instructed. Didn't get the php script to work when I place it in the root directory. Strange? Did change the path for root directory placement to include /reports/. Can't understand why not.
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Here's the code that wouldn't work when placed in root direcory.
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<?php



$old ='/reports/saved_test.html';

$new = '/reports/saved_test_2.html';

rename($old, $new) or die("couldn' t move $old to $new: $php_errormsg");

?>
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Glad things are working for you. I am assuming the reports folder is a folder in the web root directory? If not, you have to specify every folder down the line until the reports folder. It would need to be the full path from web root to the actual file. smile.gif
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