How to copy an image from one folder to another using php - php

Question

I'm having difficulty in copying an image from one folder to another, now i have seen many articles and questions regarding this, none of them makes sense or work, i have also used copy function but its giving me an error. " failed to open stream: No such file or directory" i think the copy function is only for files. The image i wanna copy is present in the root directory. Can anybody help me please. What i am doing wrong here or is there any other way???
<?php
$pic="somepic.jpg";
copy($pic,'test/Uploads');
?>

Answer 1

You should write your code same as below :
<?php
$imagePath = "/var/www/projectName/Images/somepic.jpg";
$newPath = "/test/Uploads/";
$ext = '.jpg';
$newName = $newPath."a".$ext;
$copied = copy($imagePath , $newName);
if ((!$copied))
{
echo "Error : Not Copied";
}
else
{
echo "Copied Successful";
}
?>

Answer 2

You should have file name in destination like:
copy($pic,'test/Uploads/'.$pic);

Answer 3

For your code, it must be like this:
$pic="somepic.jpg";
copy($pic,'test/Uploads/'.$pic);
Or use function, like this:
$pic="somepic.jpg";
copy_files($pic,'test/Uploads');
function copy_files($file_path, $dest_path){
if (strpos($file_path, '/') !== false) {
$pathinfo = pathinfo($file_path);
$dest_path = str_replace($pathinfo['dirname'], $dest_path, $file_path);
}else{
$dest_path = $dest_path.'/'.$file_path;
}
return copy($pic, $dest_path);
}