Question

I want to move all files and folders inside a folder to another folder. I found a code to copy all files inside a folder to another folder.
move all files in a folder to another

// Get array of all source files
$files = scandir("source");
// Identify directories
$source = "source/";
$destination = "destination/";
// Cycle through all source files
foreach ($files as $file) {
  if (in_array($file, array(".",".."))) continue;
  // If we copied this successfully, mark it for deletion
  if (copy($source.$file, $destination.$file)) {
    $delete[] = $source.$file;
  }
}
// Delete all successfully-copied files
foreach ($delete as $file) {
  unlink($file);
}

How do I change this to move all folders and files inside this folder to another folder.

Answer 1

This is what i use

   // Function to remove folders and files 
    function rrmdir($dir) {
        if (is_dir($dir)) {
            $files = scandir($dir);
            foreach ($files as $file)
                if ($file != "." && $file != "..") rrmdir("$dir/$file");
            rmdir($dir);
        }
        else if (file_exists($dir)) unlink($dir);
    }

    // Function to Copy folders and files       
    function rcopy($src, $dst) {
        if (file_exists ( $dst ))
            rrmdir ( $dst );
        if (is_dir ( $src )) {
            mkdir ( $dst );
            $files = scandir ( $src );
            foreach ( $files as $file )
                if ($file != "." && $file != "..")
                    rcopy ( "$src/$file", "$dst/$file" );
        } else if (file_exists ( $src ))
            copy ( $src, $dst );
    }

Usage

    rcopy($source , $destination );

Another example without deleting destination file or folder

    function recurse_copy($src,$dst) { 
        $dir = opendir($src); 
        @mkdir($dst); 
        while(false !== ( $file = readdir($dir)) ) { 
            if (( $file != '.' ) && ( $file != '..' )) { 
                if ( is_dir($src . '/' . $file) ) { 
                    recurse_copy($src . '/' . $file,$dst . '/' . $file); 
                } 
                else { 
                    copy($src . '/' . $file,$dst . '/' . $file); 
                } 
            } 
        } 
        closedir($dir); 
    } 

Please See: http://php.net/manual/en/function.copy.php for more juicy examples

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