Question

I am trying to copy a uploaded file which is in my directory called “upload” and is called image (5).jpg to my other directory called “images”. This is my code.

<?php
       copy(upload/image (5).jpg, images/);

 ?>

Am I doing this right?

Answer 1

First your image file name is awful, please do not use spaces in file names. Also do not use brackets in file name. Some systems like google app engine would easily mark that as invalid file name and ignore it.

Then adjust a little your line of code to look like this:

$old_file = 'upload/image_5.jpg';
$new_file = 'images/image_5.jpg';

$copied = copy(old_file, $new_file);

if ($copied) {
   print "file " . $old_file . " is copied to " . $new_file;
} else {
   print "error"; 
}

If you encounter an error maybe paths to files are not configured right. You do not have a write permission on that specific directory etc.