User Contributed Notes: rename
baghera@mindspring.com
This function apparently works relative to the directory your *script* is in, not the directory the file you are moving is in. Therefore your destination directory must reflect the location of your script.
baghera@mindspring.com
That is, if you are using this function to move a file instead of simply renaming it.
michael-nospam@sal.mik.hyperlink.net.au
Note, that on Unix, a rename is a beautiful way of getting atomic updates to files.
darin@flashcom.net
on Win98 specify the whole path but with forward slashes:
wren@i.am
When renaming files, be careful if you already have a file with the destination file name, as rename will overwrite it. As far as I'm concerned, this is a bug, seeing as this is _not_ a move function; rename should instead throw an error.
musicmaker@newfutureweb.com
Note however, that <b>rename will not move a file to a different file system</b> on Linux. I beleive that as a previous comments suggests, there should be a 'move' command that parallels UNIX's mv command, and a 'rename' command that is a pure rename function, and would throw errors overwriting and crossing file systems.
cleong@organic.com
rename() doesn't seem to overwrite files on NT. The behavior is an OS-dependent side-effect I guess.
cleong@organic.com
Note that it *IS* possible to rename across drives on NT. So rename("c:\\a.doc", "a:\\b.doc") would succeed.
max@tocrawl.com
Is that possibly to change a filename into something like this:
sapperlot@gmx.net
If I try to use rename($userfile, $targetpath . "/" . $targetfile) on a WinNT machine, I get the errormsg "Warning! No such process"...
ar.montgomery@metallo.com
Personally, I am not sure if this is a bug, but it is bothering the heck out of me! I keep getting a warning error when ever I try to rename a file on my Win2000 box. The file I am trying to rename does exist and is found by the file_exists method provided by PHP. Here is a excerpt of what I was doing...
Manual: rename
