Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 02/23/06 21:35

Yannick Benoit wrote:
> Hi guys.
> I have like hundreds of pictures in a folder
> and then I use this function to rename them
> all to a following number. but very often I
> noticed that some pictures get lost and I
> dont know where ? anyone can tell me
> whats wrong ?
>
> $dir = getcwd()."/dump/";
> $dh = opendir($dir);
> while (false !== ($filename = readdir($dh))) {
> if(($filename <> ".")&&($filename <> "..")){
> $pic_ctr++;
> rename("dump/".$filename, "dump/".$pic_ctr.".jpg");
> }
> }
>
> thanx for your help !
>
>

Do some of the files already have numbers? If you try to rename a file,
to, i.e. 2.jpg and there already is a 2.jpg, the rename will fail.

Also, as others have pointed out - did you initialize $pic_ctr before
using it?

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