uploading entire dir

Hello,

Just curious if anyone knows a way for php to upload an entire folder/dir at once?

thanks, Jay

short answer, no.

it's possible to upload multiple files at once but that probably isn't what you want. one alternative is if people uploaded a zip file that was decompressed on the server (which does raise a few security concerns but I'm still throwing it out there).

Thanks!

Specifically, I have a folder of almost a hundred files with various names. I want to upload these into my host and this folder will contain these same exact files except that they will be nicely renamed numbers 1 through 100 or whatever .

I can only click and browse each one after another on my giant form, then hit upoad for the hundred files.

Is there any way to shorten this process?

yes, I told you how in my post.

can't you use FTP?

yeah, another alternative is to use FTP all the files at once, and then rename them all by numbers.

Is there a way to loop through a folder to rename files? Specifically, is there a way to check how many files there are? (when to end the loop)

Appreiate it a ton

oky dokey...

FTP up all your files then place the following php code in the same dir with the filename filerenamer.php this is important!


<?php
// list files from DIR into an array
$filelist = glob("*.*");

// set this var for later
$filenum = "1";

// Go through each file in turn
foreach($filelist AS $file){

if($file == "filerenamer.php"){
// Its this file, do nothing...
}else{
// Its not this file, carry on..

// Get file extension
$extension = end(explode("." $file);

// Echo filename
echo "$file -> ";

// Rename file
rename("$file", "$filenum.$extension";

// Echo new filename
echo "$filenum.$extension<br />";

// Add one to $filenum
$filenum++
}
}
?>

I think you'll also have to chmod all your pages to 777 or something else. I think the script won't get permission if you don't !

added a chmod as recomended by arne

<?php
// list files from DIR into an array
$filelist = glob("*.*");

// set this var for later
$filenum = "1";

// Go through each file in turn
foreach($filelist AS $file){

if($file == "filerenamer.php"){
// Its this file, do nothing...
}else{
// Its not this file, carry on..

// Get file extension
$extension = end(explode("." $file);

// Echo filename
echo "$file -> ";

// Chmod to 777
chmod("$file", 0777);

// Rename file
rename("$file", "$filenum.$extension";

// Echo new filename
echo "$filenum.$extension<br />";

// Add one to $filenum
$filenum++
}
}
?>