Why doesn't work file_exits in this code? - php

Question

Can someone tell me why this php code doesn't work? It doesn't chek if file_exists, but it just run the code. Sorry for my bad (grammer) english, english is not my main langue :).
$files = glob("../templates/Default/*");
for ($i=0; $i<count($files); $i++) {
$src = $files[$i];
$fileName = $src;
$fileName = str_replace("../templates/Default/", "", $fileName);
$dirName = $fileName;
$dest = "../Sites/NewSite1/$fileName";
if(file_exists($fileName)){
copy($src, $dest);
echo $fileName;
}else{
$fileName = "../templates/Default/$dirName";
$fileName = str_replace("$dirName", "$dirName/*", $fileName);
$dFiles = glob($fileName);
for ($t=0; $t<count($dFiles); $t++) {
$src2 = $dFiles[$t];
copy($src2, $dest);
echo $src2;
}
}
}

Answer 1

if you want to check whether the file exists in the directory where you are trying to copy it to, then you need to provide file_exists() with the entire directory path, therefore do the following:
change this: if (file_exists($fileName)) {
to this: if (file_exists($dest)) {

Answer 2

Here is the right code: (it still need some tweeking).
$files = glob("../templates/Default/*");
for ($i=0; $i<count($files); $i++) {
$src = $files[$i];
$fileName = $src;
$fileName2 = str_replace("../templates/Default/", "", $fileName);
$dirName = $fileName2;
$dest = "../Sites/$websiteName/$fileName2";
if (!copy($src, $dest)) {
$fileName3 = "../templates/Default/$dirName/*";
$dest2 = "../Sites/$websiteName/$fileName2";
$dFiles = glob($fileName3);
for ($t=0; $t<count($dFiles); $t++) {
$src2 = $dFiles[$t];
$fileName4 = $src2;
$fileName4 = str_replace("../templates/Default/$dirName/", "", $fileName4);
mkdir("../Sites/$websiteName/$dirName");
$dest2 = "../Sites/$websiteName/$dirName/$fileName4";
copy($src2, $dest2);
}
}
}