Thank you for your response Kalle; I have written a recursive class member method for such things as setting permissions, delete, save as (copy under a different name), and search. So I can implement it for renaming* directories * relocating a directory to different parent directory JK > On Mar 3, 2019, at 1:21 PM, Kalle Sommer Nielsen <kalle@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi > > Den søn. 3. mar. 2019 kl. 22.53 skrev Jeffry Killen <jekillen@xxxxxxxxxxx>: >> >> Hello; >> I have looked at manual entries for rename and copy but >> I don't see that they will work recursively for renaming or >> copying directories with contents. >> >> Do these work recursively for directories when a directory >> is copied or renamed to a new directory? > > No, none of the file system functions does any recursive behavior like > that in PHP and it is something you would have to implement on your > own. The SPL extension does however implement a > RecursiveDirectoryIterator which you may find useful for this. > > > > -- > regards, > > Kalle Sommer Nielsen > kalle@xxxxxxx