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Best way to move entire directory tree in PHP

I would like to move a file from one directory to another. However, the trick is, I want to move file with entire path to it.

Say I have file at 

/my/current/directory/file.jpg

and I would like to move it to 

/newfolder/my/current/directory/file.jpg

So as you can see I want to retain the relative path so in the future I can move it back to /my/current/directory/ if I so require. One more thing is that /newfolder is empty - I can copy anything in there so there is no pre-made structure (another file may be copied to /newfolder/my/another/folder/anotherfile.gif. Ideally I would like to be able to create a method that will do the magic when I pass original path to file to it. Destination is always the same - /newfolder/...

Solution

  • You may try something like this if you're in an unix/linux environment :

    $original_file = '/my/current/directory/file.jpg';
$new_file = "/newfolder{$original_file}";

// create new diretory stricture (note the "-p" option of mkdir)
$new_dir = dirname($new_file);
if (!is_dir($new_dir)) {
    $command = 'mkdir -p ' . escapeshellarg($new_dir);
    exec($command);
}

echo rename($original_file, $new_file) ? 'success' : 'failed';