On 19 February 2016 06:54:41 GMT+00:00, Aziz Saleh <azizsaleh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 12:13 AM, Jeffry Killen <jekillen@xxxxxxxxxxx> >wrote: > >> Hi; >> I am looking at the php online manual at copy; >> >> I am using it in code to create copies of files and directories in a >> directory branch. >> It is failing to copy directories in the branch. >> >> Is that because it is not supposed to be used to copy directories? >> >> The manual does not seem to specify that it can't be used to make >> directories specifically (as if by copying). >> >> The situation is that a temp dir is created under a different name >at the >> same level as the target dir. >> But all the directories in the tree below that can use the same name >as >> the originals. >> >> Thank you; >> >> I have recursive code to develop a full list of included files and >> directories, >> and am looping through backward to make copies of and/or remove >selected >> directory structures. >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> >In the description, it says: "copy - Copies file": >http://php.net/manual/en/function.copy.php > >Possible solution if you want to copy files + directory: >http://stackoverflow.com/a/12763962/1935500 Coming from a Linux background, copying directories would be an understandable assumption with the "everything's a file" philosophy. Thanks, Ash -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
