Trouble with rename command

Hi,

I'm pretty new to PHP and I am trying to rename a file using PHP code. My code looks like this:

rename("/var/www/html/$old.html","/var/www/html/$random.html");

PHP:

Where $old contains the name of the file and $random contains a string of numbers.

When I run the code it gives me this error in my web browser:

Warning: rename(/var/www/html/Array.html,/var/www/html/556055023.html) [function.rename]: No such file or directory in /var/www/html/echo.php on line 283

How would I fix this?

Thanks,

Keegan

 

There is no Array.html file. Maybe the $old is an array and the filenames is the elements of that array. If you cannot solve that problem, write here and I will try to help you.

 

I have been trying to have the code print out the actual file name which is stored into $old, but everything I've tried gives me that same result, where it prints out Array instead of the file name. The variable $Random works, but some how $old doesn't. I am getting $old with the code below:

$old=file("/var/www/html/Rand_No.txt");  // records old html name

fwrite(fopen("/var/www/html/Rand_No.txt", "w+"),$random);   // records new html name over old html name
fclose(fopen("/var/www/html/Rand_No.txt", "w+"));

rename("/var/www/html/$old.html","/var/www/html/$random.html");

PHP:

Thanks for your help,

Keegan

 

You may try this code pls:

//records old html name.  ->   return array
$old	= file("/var/www/html/Rand_No.txt");
//you'd better print_r($old);tell me what this result is?
foreach($old as $key=>$value)
{
	//$random  where is $random from??
	//add $random at this line pls.be sure the value of random are different!!
	if(rename("/var/www/html/$value.html","/var/www/html/$random.html"))
	{
		//true :  be sure php script can creat a new text file for recording the true result
		$fp	= fopen('/var/www/html/rename_true.txt','ab+');
		fwrite($fp,$random);
		fclose($fp);
	}else{
		//false :  be sure php script can creat a new text file for recording the false result
		$fp	= fopen('/var/www/html/rename_false.txt','ab+');
		fwrite($fp,$random);
		fclose($fp)
	}
}

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Wu

 

Well are the paths correct ??

 

That worked!

I modified it a little, but that fixed my array problem. Thanks sunlcik!

-Keegan