php copy file to dir
How to copy a file from one directory to another using PHP?
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Quoting a couple of relevant sentences from its manual page :
Makes a copy of the file source to dest.
If the destination file already exists, it will be overwritten.
You could use the rename() function :
This however will move the file not copy
copy will do this. Please check the php-manual. Simple Google search should answer your last two questions 😉
Best way to copy all files from one folder to another using PHP
You can copy and past this will help you
Hi guys wanted to also add on how to copy using a dynamic copying and pasting.
let say we don’t know the actual folder the user will create but we know in that folder we need files to be copied to, to activate some function like delete, update, views etc.
you can use something like this. I used this code in one of the complex project which I am currently busy on. i just build it myself because all answers i got on the internet was giving me an error.
I think facebook or twitter uses something like this to build every new user dashboard dynamic.
You can use both rename() and copy().
I tend to prefer to use rename if I no longer require the source file to stay in its location.
PHP’s copy() function actually works only if the destination has some file to override. For example, you are copying a file A to file B, the copy() function will work something like following;
So the copy() requires to have a file at the destination path and in fact destination path should include that file name too otherwise it will through error and will not work.
But if you do not have any file at the destination to override well than simply make a file with that name first and you will write something like this;
I had the same problem and came to this solution of making a file at the destination for the copy function to override.
Recursive Copy of Directory
On my old VPS I was using the following code to copy the files and directories within a directory to a new directory that was created after the user submitted their form.
However now on my new VPS it will only create the main directory, but will not copy any of the files to it. I don’t understand what could have changed between the 2 VPS’s?
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Try something like this:
I have changed Joseph’s code (below), because it wasn’t working for me. This is what works:
[EDIT] added test before creating a directory (line 7)
The Symfony’s FileSystem Component offers a good error handling as well as recursive remove and other useful stuffs. Using @OzzyCzech’s great answer, we can do a robust recursive copy this way:
Note: you can use this component as well as all other Symfony2 components standalone.
Here’s what we use at our company:
This function copies folder recursivley very solid. I’ve copied it from the comments section on copy command of php.net
OzzyCheck’s is elegant and original, but he forgot the initial mkdir($dest); See below. No copy command is ever provided with contents only. It must fulfill its entire role.
Here’s a simple recursive function to copy entire directories
I guess you should check user(group)rights. You should consider chmod for example, depending on how you run (su?)PHP. You could possibly also choose to modify your php configuration.
hmm. as that’s complicated ))
There were some issues with the functions that I tested in the thread and here is a powerful function that covers everything. Highlights:
No need to have an initial or intermediate source directories. All of the directories up to the source directory and to the copied directories will be handled.
Full recursive support, all the files and directories in multiple depth are supported.
Copy entire contents of a directory to another using php
I tried to copy the entire contents of the directory to another location using
but it says it cannot find stream, true *.* is not found.
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that worked for a one level directory. for a folder with multi-level directories I used this:
As described here, this is another approach that takes care of symlinks too:
copy() only works with files.
Otherwise you’ll need to use the opendir / readdir or scandir to read the contents of the directory, iterate through the results and if is_dir returns true for each one, recurse into it.
The best solution is!
With Symfony this is very easy to accomplish:
Like said elsewhere, copy only works with a single file for source and not a pattern. If you want to copy by pattern, use glob to determine the files, then run copy. This will not copy subdirectories though, nor will it create the destination directory.
Full thanks must go to Felix Kling for his excellent answer which I have gratefully used in my code. I offer a small enhancement of a boolean return value to report success or failure:
My pruned version of @Kzoty answer. Thank you Kzoty.
I clone entire directory by SPL Directory Iterator.
For Linux servers you just need one line of code to copy recursively while preserving permission:
Another way of doing it is:
but it’s slower and does not preserve permissions.
I had a similar situation where I needed to copy from one domain to another on the same server, Here is exactly what worked in my case, you can as well adjust to suit yours:
Notice the use of «substr()», without it, the destination becomes ‘/home/user/abcde.com/../folder/’, which might be something you don’t want. So, I used substr() to eliminate the first 3 characters(../) in order to get the desired destination which is ‘/home/user/abcde.com/folder/’. So, you can adjust the substr() function and also the glob() function until it fits your personal needs. Hope this helps.
Long-winded, commented example with return logging, based on parts of most of the answers here:
It is presented as a static class method, but could work as a simple function also:
Php copy file to dir
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copy — Копирует файл
Описание
Список параметров
Путь к исходному файлу.
Путь к целевому файлу. Если dest является URL, то операция копирования может завершиться ошибкой, если обёртка URL не поддерживает перезаписывание существующих файлов.
Если целевой файл уже существует, то он будет перезаписан.
Возвращаемые значения
Возвращает true в случае успешного выполнения или false в случае возникновения ошибки.
Примеры
Пример #1 Пример использования функции copy()
= ‘example.txt’ ;
$newfile = ‘example.txt.bak’ ;
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Don’t forget; you can use copy on remote files, rather than doing messy fopen stuff. e.g.
Here is a simple script that I use for removing and copying non-empty directories. Very useful when you are not sure what is the type of a file.
I am using these for managing folders and zip archives for my website plugins.
A nice simple trick if you need to make sure the folder exists first:
Below a code snippet for downloading a file from a web server to a local file.
It demonstrates useful customizations of the request (such as setting a User-Agent and Referrer, often required by web sites), and how to download only files if the copy on the web site is newer than the local copy.
It further demonstrates the processing of response headers (if set by server) to determine the timestamp and file name. The file type is checked because some servers return a 200 OK return code with a textual «not found» page, instead of a proper 404 return code.
Как скопировать файл из одного каталога в другой с помощью PHP?
скажем у меня есть файл test.php на
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Цитируя пару соответствующих предложений со страницы руководства:
делает копию источника файла в дест.
если пункт назначения файл уже существует, он будет перезаписанный.
это движение файл не скопировать
скопировать сделает это. Пожалуйста, проверьте php-manual. Простой поиск Google должен ответить на ваши последние два вопроса 😉
лучший способ скопировать все файлы из одной папки в другую с помощью PHP
вы можете скопировать и мимо этого поможет вам
Если вы хотите скопировать несколько или (неограниченное количество файлов) перейти по ссылке: http://www.phpkida.com/php-tutorial/copy-multiple-files-from-one-folder-to-another-php/
вы можете использовать как rename (), так и copy ().
Я предпочитаю использовать rename, если мне больше не требуется, чтобы исходный файл оставался в своем местоположении.
Привет, ребята хотели также добавить, как копировать с помощью динамического копирования и вставки.
скажем, мы не знаем фактическую папку, которую пользователь создаст, но мы знаем, что в этой папке нам нужны файлы для копирования, чтобы активировать некоторые функции, такие как удаление, обновление, просмотры и т. д.
вы можете использовать что-то вроде этого. Я использовал этот код в одном из сложных проектов, над которым я сейчас занят. я просто строю его сам, потому что все ответы, которые я получил в интернете, давали мне ошибка.
Я думаю, что facebook или twitter использует что-то вроде этого для создания каждой новой динамической панели пользователей.