just put the "wrong" lines in a file and run it from the shell
with php -f
you should get more info about what's going wrong
hyh
ciao!
2005/12/16, Tim Meader <tmeader@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> What difference are you seeing in the files I give in the example? Are
> they not identical paths?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Hristo Yankov wrote:
> > The two examples you give are not the same? I see
> > different files. Please, doublecheck.
> >
> > --- Tim Meader <tmeader@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Okay, this seems like a ridiculously easy question
> >> which shouldn't even
> >> need asking, but I'm having trouble getting the
> >> builtin copy command to
> >> work properly. It seems to work fine as long as I
> >> feed it a full
> >> constant string path for each argument (ie - in the
> >> form
> >> "/the/path/to/the/file"). However, if I try to feed
> >> it two variables as
> >> the arguments, it craps out somewhere along the
> >> line. Here are the two
> >> different sets of calls I'm making:
> >>
> >> These two work perfectly:
> >>
> >>
> >
> copy("/usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/snapshot.baseline",
> >
> "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/snapshot.baseline.bak")
> >> ;
> >>
> >
> copy("/usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/lastrun.timestamp",
> >
> "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/lastrun.timestamp.bak");
> >> These two fail:
> >>
> >> $l_stLastRun =
> >>
> >
> "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/lastrun.timestamp";
> >> $l_stSnapshotBase =
> >>
> >
> "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/snapshot.baseline";
> >> copy($l_stSnapshotBase, $l_stSnapshotBase.".bak");
> >> copy($l_stLastRun, $l_stLastRun.".bak");
> >>
> >> Can anyone offer any insight on what the problem
> >> might be with this? The
> >> "unlink" function seems to accept the variable
> >> inputs with absolutely no
> >> problem, so I can't understand the discrepancy
> >> between the two.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >>
> >> Tim
> >>
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