(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
copy — Copies file
Makes a copy of the file from to
to.
If you wish to move a file, use the rename() function.
fromPath to the source file.
to
The destination path. If to is a URL, the
copy operation may fail if the wrapper does not support overwriting of
existing files.
If the destination file already exists, it will be overwritten.
contextA valid context resource created with stream_context_create().
Example #1 copy() example
<?php
$file = 'example.txt';
$newfile = 'example.txt.bak';
if (!copy($file, $newfile)) {
echo "failed to copy $file...\n";
}
?>
Having spent hours tacking down a copy() error: Permission denied , (and duly worrying about chmod on winXP) , its worth pointing out that the 'destination' needs to contain the actual file name ! --- NOT just the path to the folder you wish to copy into.......
DOH !
hope this saves somebody hours of fruitless debuggingIt take me a long time to find out what the problem is when i've got an error on copy(). It DOESN'T create any directories. It only copies to existing path. So create directories before. Hope i'll help,Don't forget; you can use copy on remote files, rather than doing messy fopen stuff. e.g.
<?php
if(!@copy('http://someserver.com/somefile.zip','./somefile.zip'))
{
$errors= error_get_last();
echo "COPY ERROR: ".$errors['type'];
echo "<br />\n".$errors['message'];
} else {
echo "File copied from remote!";
}
?>Here is a simple script that I use for removing and copying non-empty directories. Very useful when you are not sure what is the type of a file.
I am using these for managing folders and zip archives for my website plugins.
<?php
// removes files and non-empty directories
function rrmdir($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);
}
// copies files and non-empty directories
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);
}
?>
Cheers!A nice simple trick if you need to make sure the folder exists first:
<?php
$srcfile='C:\File\Whatever\Path\Joe.txt';
$dstfile='G:\Shared\Reports\Joe.txt';
mkdir(dirname($dstfile), 0777, true);
copy($srcfile, $dstfile);
?>
That simple.On Windows, php-7.4.19-Win32-vc15-x64 - copy() corrupted a 6GB zip file. Our only recourse was to write:
function file_win_copy( $src, $dst ) {
shell_exec( 'COPY "'.$src.'" "'.$dst.'"');
return file_exists($dest);
}It's worth noting that copy() sets the destination file's last modified time/date.Below a code snippet for downloading a file from a web server to a local file.
It demonstrates useful customizations of the request (such as setting a User-Agent and Referrer, often required by web sites), and how to download only files if the copy on the web site is newer than the local copy.
It further demonstrates the processing of response headers (if set by server) to determine the timestamp and file name. The file type is checked because some servers return a 200 OK return code with a textual "not found" page, instead of a proper 404 return code.
<?php
// $fURI: URL to a file located on a web server
// $target_file: Path to a local file
if ( file_exists( $target_file ) ) {
$ifmodhdr = 'If-Modified-Since: '.date( "r", filemtime( $target_file ) )."\r\n";
}
else {
$ifmodhdr = '';
}
// set request header for GET with referrer for modified files, that follows redirects
$arrRequestHeaders = array(
'http'=>array(
'method' =>'GET',
'protocol_version' =>1.1,
'follow_location' =>1,
'header'=> "User-Agent: Anamera-Feed/1.0\r\n" .
"Referer: $source\r\n" .
$ifmodhdr
)
);
$rc = copy( $fURI, $target_file, stream_context_create($arrRequestHeaders) );
// HTTP request completed, preserve system error, if any
if( $rc ) {
if ( fclose( $rc ) ) {
unset( $err );
}
else {
$err = error_get_last();
}
}
else {
$err = error_get_last();
}
// Parse HTTP Response Headers for HTTP Status, as well filename, type, date information
// Need to start from rear, to get last set of headers after possible sets of redirection headers
if ( $http_response_header ) {
for ( $i = sizeof($http_response_header) - 1; $i >= 0; $i-- ) {
if ( preg_match('@^http/\S+ (\S{3,}) (.+)$@i', $http_response_header[$i], $http_status) > 0 ) {
// HTTP Status header means we have reached beginning of response headers for last request
break;
}
elseif ( preg_match('@^(\S+):\s*(.+)\s*$@', $http_response_header[$i], $arrHeader) > 0 ) {
switch ( $arrHeader[1] ) {
case 'Last-Modified':
if ( !isset($http_content_modtime) ) {
$http_content_modtime = strtotime( $arrHeader[2] );
}
break;
case 'Content-Type':
if ( !isset($http_content_image_type) ) {
if ( preg_match('@^image/(\w+)@ims', $arrHeader[2], $arrTokens) > 0 ) {
if ( in_array(strtolower($arrTokens[1]), $arrValidTypes)) {
$http_content_image_type = $arrTokens[1];
break;
}
}
throw new Exception( "Error accessing file $fURI; invalid content type: $arrHeader[2]", 2);
}
break;
case 'Content-Disposition':
if ( !isset($http_content_filename) && preg_match('@filename\\s*=\\s*(?|"([^"]+)"|([\\S]+));?@ims', $arrHeader[2], $arrTokens) > 0 ) {
$http_content_filename = basename($arrTokens[1]);
}
break;
}
}
}
}
if ( $http_status ) {
// Make sure we have good HTTP Status
switch ( $http_status[1] ) {
case '200':
// SUCCESS: HTTP Status is "200 OK"
break;
case '304':
throw new Exception( "Remote file not newer: $fURI", $http_status[1] );
break;
case '404':
throw new Exception( "Remote file not found: $fURI", $http_status[1] );
break;
default:
throw new Exception( "HTTP Error, $http_status[2], accessing $fURI", $http_status[1] );
break;
}
}
elseif ( $err ) {
// Protocol / Communication error
throw new Exception( $err['message']/*."; Remote file: $fURI"*/, $err['type'] );
}
else {
// No HTTP status and no error
throw new customException( "Unknown HTTP response accessing $fURI: $http_response_header[0]", -1 );
}
?>
Notes:
1. Currently copy() does NOT appropriately handle the 304 response code. Instead of NOT performing a copy (possibly setting the RC), it will overwrite the target file with an zero length file.
2. There may be a problem accessing a list of remote files when HTTP 1.1 protocol is used. If you experience time-out errors, try the default 1.0 protocol version.If you try to copy a file to itself - e.g. if the target directory is just a symlink to the source directory - copy will return false. just like on the command line.Copying large files under Windows 8.1, from one NTFS filesystem to another NTFS filesystem, results in only the first 4 GiB copied and the rest of the file is ignored.
So, if you think to have files larger than 4 GiB, instead of doing:
copy($source,$destination);
it is much better to do something like:
exec("xcopy $source $destination");
I will check to see if this issue is valid also under Linux.
It depends on PHP not being compiled in 64 bit mode?Here's a simple recursive function to copy entire directories
Note to do your own check to make sure the directory exists that you first call it on.
<?php
function recurse_copy($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);
}
?>some hosts disable copy() function and say its for security
and for some copy is important so this is and simple function that do same as copy function effect
how smart php can help us l like php
<?php
function copyemz($file1,$file2){
$contentx =@file_get_contents($file1);
$openedfile = fopen($file2, "w");
fwrite($openedfile, $contentx);
fclose($openedfile);
if ($contentx === FALSE) {
$status=false;
}else $status=true;
return $status;
}
?>To copy a file and preserve the file timestamps:
<?php
if (copy($from, $to))
touch($to, filemtime($from), fileatime($from));
?>