How to copy few files from one folder to another folder in php and delete them in source folder

Question

How to copy files from one folder to another folder in php and delete them in source folder ?

I have two folder $incoming_file_path = /home/xmlcontainer and $processing_file_path = home/process_file. I am looping through all files in $incoming_file_path = home/xmlcontainer and than copying it into $processing_file_path = home/process_file.

After executing below code I am not able to copy the content of files but just the name of the files also am not able to delete files which I have copies to destination folder from source folder using unlink, I am surely using unlink in wrong way and would certainly appreciate any guidance on it.

Code

foreach( glob($incoming_file_path.'/*')as $key => $value ) {
    copy($incoming_file_path.$value,$processing_file_path.$value);
    unlink($incoming_file_path.$value); 
    }

Answer 1

First of all, just use rename if you intend to move the files.

Your loop should look like this:

foreach (glob($incoming_file_path . '/*') as $value) {
  rename($value, $processing_file_path . '/' . basename($value))
}

Inability to read file contents and/or delete a file is often a simple permissions problem. Check if the owner of your PHP process can read and write to both $incoming_file_path and $processing_file_path. You may want to run chmod -R u+rwx (or chmod -R o+rwx) on both $incoming_file_path and $processing_file_path.