copy/move files..

[jodleren]

While reading php.net I found

" bool copy ( string $source , string $dest [, resource $context ] )
Makes a copy of the file source to dest .
If you wish to move a file, use the rename() function. "

..... what? rename can move a file...?

[Rik Wasmus]

Re: copy/move files..

On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:22:02 +0100, jodleren <sonnich@hot.ee wrote:

While reading php.net I found
>
" bool copy ( string $source , string $dest [, resource $context ] )
Makes a copy of the file source to dest .
If you wish to move a file, use the rename() function. "
>
.... what? rename can move a file...?

Yes, with some caveats, quite common practice.
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Rik Wasmus

[Jonas Werres]

Re: copy/move files..

.... what? rename can move a file...?

Never used DOS?

[giblfiz]

Re: copy/move files..

On Jan 7, 11:22 am, jodleren <sonn...@hot.ee wrote:

While reading php.net I found
>
" bool copy ( string $source , string $dest [, resource $context ] )
Makes a copy of the file source to dest .
If you wish to move a file, use the rename() function. "
>
.... what? rename can move a file...?

Think of the entire folder path to the file as its name,
so if you have a file in folder /foo/bar/ named "Myfile" really how
the OS thinks of it is as a file named "/foo/bar/Myfile". if you
rename it to "/foo/BAZ/Myfile" it is now in the directory BAZ. its
"Name" for the OS has changed, even though its name for you, "Myfile"
hasn't. This is a gross oversimplificat ion, but I think it should help
anyway.

[=?ISO-8859-15?Q?Iv=E1n_S=E1nchez_Ortega?=]

Re: copy/move files..

jodleren wrote:

.... what? rename can move a file...?

Yeah. Welcome to the wonderful world of filesystem jargon.

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