[SOLVED] Need to swap two files.... They are photos being swapped. Is there a command?

[spdwrench]

I need to swap two files for example

 

/photos/jim1.jpg

 

and

 

/photos/jim3.jpg

 

if I need jim3 to become jim1 and jim1 to become jim3 do I need to first save one of them as a new file or is there some kind of swap command that will just swap the two?

 

anyway help is appreciated I am currently working on it to rename jim1 to swap and rename jim3 to jim1 and then swap to jim3

 

is there an easier way?

 

Paul

[shocker-z]

yes because of your file system not allowing duplicate names (standard law of things) you would have to do somthing like

 

Copy jim1 jim3tmp

copy jim3 jim1

copy jim3tmp jim3

 

I spose you could hold the value of the image in a variable and then write it back after overwriting the file.

 

Regards

Liam

[spdwrench]

I figured it out using the exisiting script functions swaps the 2 files and updates the description in the database

 

I had to swap thumbs and the reg pic

 

else if ($action == "makeprimary")
        {
	   $f = f(q("SELECT * FROM dt_photos WHERE member_id=$fMember[id]"));
          $g = "filename_$photo_id";
            @rename("photos/$fPhoto[$g]","photos/swap.tmp");
            $photo_fname = substr($fPhoto[$g],0,strrpos($fPhoto[$g],"."));
            $photo_ftype = substr($fPhoto[$g],strrpos($fPhoto[$g],"."));
           	@rename("photos/".$photo_fname.'_thumb'.$photo_ftype,"photos/swapthumb.tmp");
		// Above changes name of select photo to temp files swap and swapthumb

		$prg="filename_1";
		@rename("photos/$fPhoto[$prg]","photos/$fPhoto[$g]");
		$nphoto_fname = substr($fPhoto[$prg],0,strrpos($fPhoto[$prg],"."));
            $nphoto_ftype = substr($fPhoto[$prg],strrpos($fPhoto[$prg],"."));
		@rename("photos/".$nphoto_fname.'_thumb'.$nphoto_ftype,"photos/".$photo_fname.'_thumb'.$photo_ftype);
		// write from primary to new spot in database

            $desc = "description_1";
		$sdesc= "description_$photo_id";
		q("UPDATE dt_photos SET description_$photo_id = '$f[$desc]' WHERE member_id='$fMember[id]'");
            q("UPDATE dt_photos SET description_1 = '$f[$sdesc]' WHERE member_id='$fMember[id]'");
             // end of description swap  
		// above changes primary into posistion of swapped photo also thumb

		@rename("photos/swap.tmp","photos/$fPhoto[$prg]");
		@rename("photos/swapthumb.tmp","photos/".$nphoto_fname.'_thumb'.$nphoto_ftype);

        }
	// added above

 

I always feel like I wont get it and at the last minute falls together easily

 

sometimes when I think to hard it throws me off

 

Paul