PHP Timestamp

[phpcoder2013]

Is there a way to add a timestamp when finished uploading to server?

 

For example:

An image named Testing.jpg is uploaded to the server.

I want it to automatically be renamed to

 

2013_08_22-15:09:27-Testing.jpg

(Year_Month_Day-Hour:Minute:Second-FILENAME.EXTENSION)

 

Maybe the following code could help you while fixing my script.

 

 

$date = new DateTime();
echo $date->format('U = Y_m_d-H:i:s')

 

 

 

My current code:

<?php

if((!empty($_FILES["uploaded_file"])) && ($_FILES['uploaded_file']['error'] == 0)) {

  $filename = basename($_FILES['uploaded_file']['name']);

  $ext = substr($filename, strrpos($filename, '.') + 1);

  if (($ext == "jpg") && ($_FILES["uploaded_file"]["type"] == "image/jpeg") && 

    ($_FILES["uploaded_file"]["size"] < 350000000)) {

      $newname = dirname(__FILE__).'/Uploads/'.$filename;

      if (!file_exists($newname)) {

        if ((move_uploaded_file($_FILES['uploaded_file']['tmp_name'],$newname))) {

           echo "It's done! The file has been saved as: ".$newname;

        } else {

           echo "Error: A problem occurred during file upload!";

        }

      } else {

         echo "Error: File ".$_FILES["uploaded_file"]["name"]." already exists";

      }

  } else {

     echo "Error: Only .jpg images under 350000Kb are accepted for upload";

  }

} else {

 echo "Error: No file uploaded";

}

?>

 

PS: I have only recently started to learn PHP coding (About 3 days ago)

[AbraCadaver]

$newname = dirname(__FILE__) . '/Uploads/' . date('Y_m_d-H:i:s') . '-' . $filename;

 

[phpcoder2013]

$newname = dirname(__FILE__) . '/Uploads/' . date('Y_m_d-H:i:s') . '-' . $filename;

 

Thanks so much!

 

But may I ask why in the tutorial it says 

$date = new DateTime();

echo $date->format('U = Y_m_d-H:i:s')

 

instead of

 

echo date('Y_m_d-H:i:s')?

[AbraCadaver]

Thanks so much!

 

But may I ask why in the tutorial it says 

$date = new DateTime();

echo $date->format('U = Y_m_d-H:i:s')

 

instead of

 

echo date('Y_m_d-H:i:s')?

 

date() is a date formatting function.  The DateTime class can format a date / time but it has many more features to manipulate dates and times etc.  Since all you needed was to format todays date, I didn't see any need to create an object.

Edited August 22, 2013 by AbraCadaver