Preserved Topic: PHP: how to delete or rename a file?

well, the topic says it all. i didnt find anything in the PHP manual.

i need this, because im writing an admin-script for backing up/deleting textfiles.

ummm...


you didn't look enough

copy
unlink (delete)

The two together should allow you to rename files.
Don't know if there's a straight up rename command. however you can always use an exec command to do these easy enough on a *nix file system (it's exec("mv oldfilename newfilename"); I believe



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[This message has been edited by bitdamaged (edited 12-15-2001).]

[This message has been edited by bitdamaged (edited 12-15-2001).]

cooool!

actually i only looked in the area of fopen, fgets, etc.

big thanks, bitdamaged.

edit: btw: there's rename too!
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.rename.php





[This message has been edited by GRUMBLE (edited 12-15-2001).]