move all files in a folder to another?

Question

when moving one file from one location to another i use

rename(\'path/filename\', \'newpath/filename\');

how do you move all files in a fol

Answer 1

i move all my .json files from root folder to json folder with this

foreach (glob("*.json") as $filename) {
    rename($filename,"json/".$filename);
}

pd: someone 2020?

Answer 2

An alternate using rename() and with some error checking:

$srcDir = 'dir1';
$destDir = 'dir2';

if (file_exists($destDir)) {
  if (is_dir($destDir)) {
    if (is_writable($destDir)) {
      if ($handle = opendir($srcDir)) {
        while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
          if (is_file($srcDir . '/' . $file)) {
            rename($srcDir . '/' . $file, $destDir . '/' . $file);
          }
        }
        closedir($handle);
      } else {
        echo "$srcDir could not be opened.\n";
      }
    } else {
      echo "$destDir is not writable!\n";
    }
  } else {
    echo "$destDir is not a directory!\n";
  }
} else {
  echo "$destDir does not exist\n";
}

Answer 3

As a side note; when you copy files to another folder, their last changed time becomes current timestamp. So you should touch() the new files.

... (some codes for directory looping) ...
if (copy($source.$file, $destination.$file)) {
   $delete[] = $source.$file;

   $filetimestamp = filemtime($source.$file); 
   touch($destination.$file,$filetimestamp);
}
... (some codes) ...

Answer 4

tried this one?:

     <?php

     $oldfolderpath = "old/folder";
     $newfolderpath = "new/folder";

     rename($oldfolderpath,$newfolderpath);
     ?>

Answer 5

try this: rename('path/*', 'newpath/');

I do not see a point in having an asterisk in the destination