Re: [PHP] Help with the copy command...
On 12/15/05, Tim Meader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, this seems like a ridiculously easy question which shouldn't even need asking, but I'm having trouble getting the builtin copy command to work properly. It seems to work fine as long as I feed it a full constant string path for each argument (ie - in the form /the/path/to/the/file). However, if I try to feed it two variables as the arguments, it craps out somewhere along the line. Here are the two different sets of calls I'm making: These two work perfectly: copy(/usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/snapshot.baseline, /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/snapshot.baseline.bak) ; copy(/usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/lastrun.timestamp, /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/lastrun.timestamp.bak); These two fail: $l_stLastRun = /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/lastrun.timestamp; $l_stSnapshotBase = /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/snapshot.baseline; copy($l_stSnapshotBase, $l_stSnapshotBase..bak); copy($l_stLastRun, $l_stLastRun..bak); Can anyone offer any insight on what the problem might be with this? The unlink function seems to accept the variable inputs with absolutely no problem, so I can't understand the discrepancy between the two. There's no problem with variable names as parameters to copy() - you can test that in a few seconds. $ touch foo $ php -a Interactive mode enabled ?php $a = 'foo'; copy($a, $a . '.bak'); ? $ ls foo foo.bak So the problem is elsewhere. 99 times in 100 you've either messed up the filenames or you've not got appropriate file permissions to do the copy. -robin
Re: [PHP] Help with the copy command...
What difference are you seeing in the files I give in the example? Are they not identical paths? Thanks. Hristo Yankov wrote: The two examples you give are not the same? I see different files. Please, doublecheck. --- Tim Meader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, this seems like a ridiculously easy question which shouldn't even need asking, but I'm having trouble getting the builtin copy command to work properly. It seems to work fine as long as I feed it a full constant string path for each argument (ie - in the form /the/path/to/the/file). However, if I try to feed it two variables as the arguments, it craps out somewhere along the line. Here are the two different sets of calls I'm making: These two work perfectly: copy(/usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/snapshot.baseline, /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/snapshot.baseline.bak) ; copy(/usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/lastrun.timestamp, /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/lastrun.timestamp.bak); These two fail: $l_stLastRun = /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/lastrun.timestamp; $l_stSnapshotBase = /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/snapshot.baseline; copy($l_stSnapshotBase, $l_stSnapshotBase..bak); copy($l_stLastRun, $l_stLastRun..bak); Can anyone offer any insight on what the problem might be with this? The unlink function seems to accept the variable inputs with absolutely no problem, so I can't understand the discrepancy between the two. Thanks in advance. Tim -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php === Hristo Yankov, Developer at Portellus, Inc. ICQ - 191445567 Yahoo! - yankov_hristo __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Help with the copy command...
just put the wrong lines in a file and run it from the shell with php -f you should get more info about what's going wrong hyh ciao! 2005/12/16, Tim Meader [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What difference are you seeing in the files I give in the example? Are they not identical paths? Thanks. Hristo Yankov wrote: The two examples you give are not the same? I see different files. Please, doublecheck. --- Tim Meader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, this seems like a ridiculously easy question which shouldn't even need asking, but I'm having trouble getting the builtin copy command to work properly. It seems to work fine as long as I feed it a full constant string path for each argument (ie - in the form /the/path/to/the/file). However, if I try to feed it two variables as the arguments, it craps out somewhere along the line. Here are the two different sets of calls I'm making: These two work perfectly: copy(/usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/snapshot.baseline, /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/snapshot.baseline.bak) ; copy(/usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/lastrun.timestamp, /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/lastrun.timestamp.bak); These two fail: $l_stLastRun = /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/lastrun.timestamp; $l_stSnapshotBase = /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/snapshot.baseline; copy($l_stSnapshotBase, $l_stSnapshotBase..bak); copy($l_stLastRun, $l_stLastRun..bak); Can anyone offer any insight on what the problem might be with this? The unlink function seems to accept the variable inputs with absolutely no problem, so I can't understand the discrepancy between the two. Thanks in advance. Tim -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php === Hristo Yankov, Developer at Portellus, Inc. ICQ - 191445567 Yahoo! - yankov_hristo __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Help with the copy command...
Okay, this seems like a ridiculously easy question which shouldn't even need asking, but I'm having trouble getting the builtin copy command to work properly. It seems to work fine as long as I feed it a full constant string path for each argument (ie - in the form /the/path/to/the/file). However, if I try to feed it two variables as the arguments, it craps out somewhere along the line. Here are the two different sets of calls I'm making: These two work perfectly: copy(/usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/snapshot.baseline, /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/snapshot.baseline.bak) ; copy(/usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/lastrun.timestamp, /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/lastrun.timestamp.bak); These two fail: $l_stLastRun = /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/lastrun.timestamp; $l_stSnapshotBase = /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/snapshot.baseline; copy($l_stSnapshotBase, $l_stSnapshotBase..bak); copy($l_stLastRun, $l_stLastRun..bak); Can anyone offer any insight on what the problem might be with this? The unlink function seems to accept the variable inputs with absolutely no problem, so I can't understand the discrepancy between the two. Thanks in advance. Tim -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Help with the copy command...
The two examples you give are not the same? I see different files. Please, doublecheck. --- Tim Meader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, this seems like a ridiculously easy question which shouldn't even need asking, but I'm having trouble getting the builtin copy command to work properly. It seems to work fine as long as I feed it a full constant string path for each argument (ie - in the form /the/path/to/the/file). However, if I try to feed it two variables as the arguments, it craps out somewhere along the line. Here are the two different sets of calls I'm making: These two work perfectly: copy(/usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/snapshot.baseline, /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/snapshot.baseline.bak) ; copy(/usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/lastrun.timestamp, /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/lastrun.timestamp.bak); These two fail: $l_stLastRun = /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/lastrun.timestamp; $l_stSnapshotBase = /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/snapshot.baseline; copy($l_stSnapshotBase, $l_stSnapshotBase..bak); copy($l_stLastRun, $l_stLastRun..bak); Can anyone offer any insight on what the problem might be with this? The unlink function seems to accept the variable inputs with absolutely no problem, so I can't understand the discrepancy between the two. Thanks in advance. Tim -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php === Hristo Yankov, Developer at Portellus, Inc. ICQ - 191445567 Yahoo! - yankov_hristo __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
