Re: Moving Files From One Directory To Another

Hello Nilaab, It sounds like you are looking for the rename() function. This function renames (also known as move) a file. You can find out more about rename() at http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.rename.php Jason On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 21:42, @ Nilaab wrote: > Which built-in PHP functions would I use to move a file from one directory > into another? I'm thinking that this requires more than one function to > achieve what I want. > > What approaches should I take? Do I need to copy the file into a temporary > directory first and then move it to the destination directory? Or Is it > possible for me to move the file directly from one directory into another? > > The functions I read about so far are copy() and move_uploaded_file(), but > the move_uploaded_file() function seems to work only when the file is > uploaded from an HTML form, or am I wrong? > > Just looking for some direction. > > - Nilaab > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php