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Rename Uploaded file

Ok ive got a fileuploader and I expect that im gonna have a problem with people uploading files with the same name even though I made it so it would tell the user if theres a file with that name.

What I want to do is have $filename-$count.swf I was wondering how I can rename the file from just blah.swf to blah-13.swf on upload.

$filename would be the filename from the orginal file and $count would be how for how many uploads there been going up each time

Any ideas?

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you can either scan the directory and see how many files you have, you can store the number in a text file or a mysql db just like a hit counter, but for the downloads, or if you dont want the numbers to be in order you can use a timestamp, the timestamp is the easiest but it puts a 10 digit number in the filename.

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I already have a line that counts how many movies have been uploaded I just need to figure out how you rename a file on upload

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-=STP=- StickThemePark.Com

rename() perhaps? Search in the PHP documentation ext time for this kind of question.

well then when u save the filename just put the unique key at the beginning of it...

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how about this?

PHP:

<?php

$count = "0";
$filename = $_FILES['thefile']['name'];
$dir = opendir("./uploaded");
$nondupname = explode(".",$filename);
while(false !== ($files = readdir($dir))) {
    if($filename == $files){
        $count++;        
        $filename = $nondupname[0].$count.".".$nondupname[1];
        }
    }
    
copy($_FILES['thefile']'tmp_name'],"uploaded//".$filename);

?>