rename
Description
The rename of Filesystem for PHP renames a file or directory.
Syntax
rename(
string $from,
string $to,
?resource $context = null
): boolParameters
from
The old name.
NOTE: The wrapper used in from must match the wrapper used in to.
to
The new name.
NOTE: On Windows, if to already exists, it must be writable. Otherwise rename() fails and issues E_WARNING.
context
A context stream resource.
Return
Returns true on success or false on failure.
Examples
1 · from to
<? $from = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/assets/txt/from.txt'; $to = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/assets/txt/to.txt'; $return = rename($from, $to); var_export($return); ?>
true
2 · context
<? $from = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/assets/txt/from.txt'; $to = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/assets/txt/to.txt'; $context = stream_context_create(); $return = rename($from, $to, $context); var_export($return); ?>
true
Links
Filesystem
- basename
- chgrp
- chmod
- chown
- clearstatcache
- copy
- dirname
- disk_free_space
- disk_total_space
- diskfreespace
- fclose
- feof
- fflush
- fgetc
- fgetcsv
- fgets
- file
- file_exists
- file_get_contents
- file_put_contents
- fileatime
- filectime
- filegroup
- fileinode
- filemtime
- fileowner
- fileperms
- filesize
- filetype
- flock
- fnmatch
- fopen
- fpassthru
- fputcsv
- fputs
- fread
- fscanf
- fseek
- fstat
- ftell
- ftruncate
- fwrite
- glob
- is_dir
- is_executable
- is_file
- is_link
- is_readable
- is_uploaded_file
- is_writable
- is_writeable
- lchgrp
- lchown
- link
- linkinfo
- lstat
- mkdir
- move_uploaded_file
- pathinfo
- pclose
- popen
- readfile
- readlink
- realpath
- realpath_cache_get
- realpath_cache_size
- rewind
- rmdir
- set_file_buffer
- stat
- symlink
- tempnam
- tmpfile
- touch
- umask
- unlink
