Question

I have one folder named SOURCE. In that folder around 10,000 images are there. The folder containing images of various category. For a particular category the image names are stored in a table. Now i want to copy all the images which belongs to particular category from that folder and then copy all those images into another folder.

Say there is a table like this,

id  imagename
1    abc_1
2    abc_2
3    abc_3
4    abc_4
5    abc_5

All those images are in the same source folder. I need to run a query to filter this category images and copy all those to another folder. In that particular category i have around 1500 Images. I am working in PHP & MYSQL Environment. How to do this? Hope my question is clear.

Thanks in Advance !!

Answer 1

To clarify after reading all the comments, this is what I understand: You would like to move specific image files on the file system to another folder, filtering those files by the imageNames in the database.

1. Retrieve the imageNames from the category table that you need (select imageNames from myCategory) and store the result set in a collection.
2. Iterate over the collection
   1. using the known directory structure match the file name and copy it over to the new directory. (take a look at http://php.net/manual/en/function.copy.php)