Posted by Luuk on 10/19/67 12:00

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> On Jan 16, 2:59 am, Marlin Forbes <"marlinf <AT> datashaman <POINT>
> wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> matp...@gmail.com wrote:
>> > But I need a way of getting the unique id to the file name and am not
>> > sure of a way to do this, especially with the problem of when several
>> > people are completing the form at the same time. I need to make sure
>> > that the number given to the duplicated .php file isn't associated
>> > more than once.
>>
>> When handling uploaded files in PHP, the $_FILES array holds a variable:
>>
>> $_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name']
>>
>> The tmp_name is guaranteed to be unique within the folder where the
>> temporary uploaded files are stored. You could strip the filename
>> portion of that out and use it in your destination folder.
>>
>> For more details on file uploads and the temp folder handling, see the
>> entry under Features/Handling file uploads in the manual.
>>
>> Or alternately, you can use the php function tempname, detailed under
>> Filesystem Functions in the manual.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Marlin Forbes
>> Data Shaman
>> datashaman.com
>
> I'm not sure that this would solve the problems either, because I'd
> like to try and control to some extent the unique ID's. In the same
> way that when the form is submitted, the values enter the db and each
> row is given a unique ID, I need the attachment (which I currently
> have being uploaded with its name) to have its name changed to the
> unique ID and the other action i needed was for a php file on the
> server to be duplicated into a folder and be renamed "unique ID".php
>
> The name of the image I'm uploading needs to have the same name as the
> php file.
>
> This process of uploading the attachment, duplicating/copying and
> renaming the php file on server and entering the table contents into
> the DB could happen thousands of times - I would ideally like the
> names of the php pages to be 1001.php, 1002.php, 1003.php etc. (and
> the associated attachment uploads to be 1001.gif, 1002.gif, 1003.gif
>
> These dont necessarily need to be the same as the unique number thats
> given to the mysql contents - but I'll have to do something to be able
> to reference the db contents with the file names later (maybe add this
> info to an extra table)....
>
> do you have any ideas on how to make the names sequential like this
> yet only allocate them once so that there's no problems with more than
> one person filling in the form at any 1 time.
>
>
> Do you have any experience with this code for duplicating a file on
> the server, I cant get it to work:
>
> $source_file = 'dir/folder/template.php';
> $dest_file = 'dir/newfolder/newname.php';
>
> copy($source_file, $dest_file);
>
> You can see how I'm trying to copy this folder over and rename it.
> Eventually I'd like to substitute 'newname.php' with '$uniqueID.php'
>
> But if you can help me with the baby steps of getting any file to copy
> and rename it'd really help.
>
> Thx

try the example on http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/function.copy.php
<?php
$file = 'example.txt';
$newfile = 'example.txt.bak';

if (!copy($file, $newfile)) {
echo "failed to copy $file...\n";
}
?>

probably you get the result "failed to copy $file...\n"
because your webserver has nog enough rights...

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