rename()

[jandrews3]

I know someone's gonna paste me for this, for I certainly know NOT what I do ... but ... shouldn't the following code when executed change the name of a file called test2.pdf in a directory called documents to rename_test.pdf?

<?

$old_name = "test2.pdf";
$new_name = "rename_test.pdf";
rename("/documents/".$old_name, "/documents/".$new_name);


?>

[mikesta707]

yes, yes that should do exactly that (assuming the script is in the same directory as the documents directory)

[gwolgamott]

And assuming you have r/w privileges too.

[jandrews3]

Yes, its in the same directory as documents, but I'm getting the following error:

 

Warning: rename(/documents/test2.pdf,/documents/rename_test.pdf) [function.rename]: No such file or directory in /home/account1/public_html/test_rename.php on line 5

[mikesta707]

that means that the directory/file you are pointing to doesn't exist. Remember, you are giving a relative path, so make sure that the file is where you expect it to be

[jandrews3]

I'm afraid the file does exist (I've verified it with my ftp client and also by loading it by URL in a browser) and it is properly placed in the documents folder. Could there be a server setting that doesn't allow renaming files which might give this response?

[jandrews3]

Found problem. Needed to remove leading slash from path. Strange that php.net has it in their example:

 

rename("/tmp/tmp_file.txt", "/home/user/login/docs/my_file.txt");