Transfer files to new directories - php

Question

I just need a simple code to transfer files to new directories that will have variable names.
for instance here is a snip of my code, it is very simple, see the attachment
As you can see this is a registration page, when the user is created, then a token is created a folder is created with the username which is a variable in this case, in the end, it created the folder and finally sends a confirmation email via php mailer.
I want once the folder I mentioned earlier is created post user registration it needs to automatically copy all files (.) located in: temp/accounts/profile into the new directory created, for instance:
temp/accounts/profile/newuser
I tried to do this but since the new directory relies on the username input it is a variable and I'm not sure how to build this query to transfer the files successfully after user registration.

Answer 1

Loop the contents from one directory and copy them over to the new one.
$targetDir = 'temp/accounts/profile/newuser';
//of course create this folder first if it doesn't exist
mkdir($targetDir);
// Scan the directory and retrieve all files
// `array_diff` is to clean out directory thingies than can persist
foreach(array_diff(scandir($dirname), ['.','..']) as $val){
copy("$dirname/$val", "$targetDir/$val");
}

Answer 2

You need to find all files and copy them over one by one. If you need to copy directories you'll have to implement a recursive copy, in that case, you could use is_dir within your loop to check if the filename is a directory.
<?php
$source = 'temp/accounts/profile/newuser';
$destination = 'temp/accounts/profile/' . $name;
$files = glob($source . "/*.*"); //Find all files
foreach($files as $filename){
copy($filename, $destination . "/" . basename($filename));
}
?>