Posted by Tyrone Slothrop on 01/23/07 05:46

On 22 Jan 2007 20:30:05 -0800, "eholz1" <ewholz@gmail.com> wrote:

>Hello PHP group,
>
>I am trying to use the copy function to copy files from one directory
>to another.
>This does not seem to work for me. What am I missing?
>
>Below is the code I am using.
>
><?php
>$filecount = 0;
>$filelist[0] = '';
>$idx = 0;
>
> //define('loc1', '/usr/local/Apache2/htdocs/portfolios', true);
> $path = 'testimage';
> $thumb_path = 'thumbs';
>
> $dir_handle = @opendir($path) or die("Unable to open directory
>$path");
>
> //$filename2 = $filename . '.old';
> //copy($filename, $filename2);
>
>while ($file = readdir($dir_handle))
> {
> $filetyp = strtolower(substr($file, -3));
> if ($filetyp == 'jpg' )
> {
>//loc1. '/'.$path. '/' .$thumb_path . '/' .
> $filelist[$idx] = $path . '/' . $file;
> $thumbfile = $thumb_path . '/'. 'thumb-'. $file;
>
> if (!@copy($file, $thumbfile)) {
> echo "unable to copy file" .'<br>';
> }
>
> $idx++;
> $filecount++;
>
> }
> }
>
> closedir($dir_handle);
>
> echo '<h2>'."counted: " . $filecount . " files.".'</h2>';
>
>?>
> I have tried to copy to the same directory as well - no luck. the
>webserver has access to the folders in question. What do I need to do
>to get this to work?
>
>Thanks Again,
>
>eholz1

Permissions problem? On Apache *nix servers, PHP generally runs as
"nobody". Try to chmod 777 the directory to see if thast solves the
problem.

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