how to edit the uploaded file in php???

[xuexue]

hi guys!

this is my problem, let's say the user wants to edit the file's information, not the file itself. example, i have Document1.doc, that is my file, what i want is that the user could edit the information, let's say the time it was uploaded, the filename and not necessarily the content of the file itself.

thanks in advance...

[praveen_dusari]

are you inserting file into database?
with database its easy insert file path into one field,file name into one field and time into 1 field
then in edit you can just update name and time fields

[xuexue]

sir i can do that, it is easy to edit that in the database, however the problem is that how about the file itself? i mean its filename like that that is stored in the uploads folder????

[ryan_vietnow]

kindly look at rename() function in PHP.

[xuexue]

sir it's not working, the files i wanted to replace is located in a separate folder, uploads folder.

this is the error:

Warning: rename(logo.psd,golo.psd) [function.rename]: No such file or directory in C:\server\htdocs\samples\php\fileRecs.php on line 332

[ryan_vietnow]

include the path from where the file is coming from and the path from where it will reside and renamed.

[xuexue]

sir can you check this out...

function GetFileDir($php_self)
{ 
$filename = explode("/", $php_self); 
for( $i = 0; $i < (count($filename) - 1); ++$i ) 
{ 
	$filename2 .= $filename[$i].'/'; 
} 
	return $filename2; 
}

this outputs: this is the output

(/samples/php/uploads/logo.psd