How to rename uploaded file before saving it into a directory?

Question

Below is the code I used in order to upload files into a directory. It works fine. My main question is:

move_uploaded_file() is the one that saves t

Answer 1

You guess correctly. Read the manual page for move_uploaded_file. Set the second parameter to whereever your want to save the file.

If it doesn't work, there is something wrong with your $fileName. Please post your most recent code.

Answer 2

You can Try this,

$newfilename= date('dmYHis').str_replace(" ", "", basename($_FILES["file"]["name"]));

move_uploaded_file($_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"], "../img/imageDirectory/" . $newfilename);

Answer 3

The move_uploaded_file will return false if the file was not successfully moved you can put something into your code to alert you in a log if that happens, that should help you figure out why your having trouble renaming the file

Answer 4

/* create new name file */
$filename   = uniqid() . "-" . time(); // 5dab1961e93a7-1571494241
$extension  = pathinfo( $_FILES["file"]["name"], PATHINFO_EXTENSION ); // jpg
$basename   = $filename . "." . $extension; // 5dab1961e93a7_1571494241.jpg

$source       = $_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"];
$destination  = "../img/imageDirectory/{$basename}";

/* move the file */
move_uploaded_file( $source, $destination );

echo "Stored in: {$destination}";

Answer 5

You can simply change the name of the file by changing the name of the file in the second parameter of move_uploaded_file.

Instead of

move_uploaded_file($_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"], "../img/imageDirectory/" . $_FILES["file"]["name"]);

Use

$temp = explode(".", $_FILES["file"]["name"]);
$newfilename = round(microtime(true)) . '.' . end($temp);
move_uploaded_file($_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"], "../img/imageDirectory/" . $newfilename);

Changed to reflect your question, will product a random number based on the current time and append the extension from the originally uploaded file.