PHP - Move a file into a different folder on the server

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I need to allow users on my website to delete their images off the server after they have uploaded them if they no longer want them  I was previously using the unlink function in PHP but have since been told that this can be quite risky and a security issue   Previous code below    if unlink  path  image1 jpg              deleted     Instead i now want to simply move the file into a different folder  This must be able to be done a long time after they have first uploaded the file so any time they log into their account  If i have the main folder which stores the users image s    user    and then within that a folder called del which is the destination to put their unwanted images   user del    Is there a command to move a file into a different folder  So that say   user image1 jpg   moves to becomes  user del image1 jpg

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The rename function does this  docs rename  rename  image1 jpg    del image1 jpg     If you want to keep the existing file on the same place you should use copy  docs copy  copy  image1 jpg    del image1 jpg     If you want to move an uploaded file use the move uploaded file  although this is almost the same as rename this function also checks that the given file is a file that was uploaded via the POST  this prevents for example that a local file is moved   docs move uploaded file   uploads dir     uploads   foreach    FILES  pictures    error   as  key   gt   error        if   error    UPLOAD ERR OK             tmp name     FILES  pictures    tmp name    key            name     FILES  pictures    name    key           move uploaded file  tmp name    uploads dir  name              code snipet from docs

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Create a function to move it   function move file  file   to        path parts   pathinfo  file        newplace       to   path parts  basename          if rename  file   newplace           return  newplace      return null

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Use file this code function move file  path  to      if copy  path   to          unlink  path         return true       else        return false

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Use the rename   function   rename  user image1 jpg    user del image1 jpg

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Some solution is first to copy   the file  as mentioned above  and when the destination file exists - unlink   file from previous localization  Additionally you can validate the MD5 checksum before unlinking to be sure

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I using shell read all data file then assign to array  Then i move file in top position   i 0  for file in  home   gz  do      file     arr i   file     i    i 1    done  mv -f    arr 0     var www html

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use copy   and unlink   function   moveFile  path filename   if  copy  csvFile  moveFile        unlink  csvFile

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If you want to move the file in new path with keep original file name  use this    source file    foo image jpg    destination path    bar    rename  source file   destination path   pathinfo  source file  PATHINFO BASENAME

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shell exec  mv filename dest filename

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