Question

I have the following lines of php code which should rename a file which already exists on the server to the id generated in the last query:

$image1Oldname = "images/" . $myfile;
$image1NewName = "images/" . mysql_insert_id() . ".jpg";

rename($image1Oldname, $image1NewName);

For some reason this does not rename the file when the script is run.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Any suggestions?

Sure.
You have to learn how to debug your code.

It is not a rocket science though.

• Just turn all possible error reporting on
• and echo out every piece of data you are using to see if something goes wrong.

ini_set('display_errors',1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);

$image1Oldname = "images/" . $myfile;
$image1NewName = "images/" . mysql_insert_id() . ".jpg";

var_dump($image1Oldname, $image1NewName);
rename($image1Oldname, $image1NewName);
exit;