Copy and rename multiple files with PHP - php

Question

Is there a way to copy and rename multiple files in php but get their names from an array or a list of variables.
The nearest thing to what I need that I was able to find is this page
Copy & rename a file to the same directory without deleting the original file
but the only thing the script on this page does is creating a second file and it's name is already preset in the script.
I need to be able to copy and create multiple files, like 100-200 and get their names set from an array.
If I have an initial file called "service.jpg"
I would need the file to be copied multiple times with the different names from the array as such :
$imgnames = array('London', 'New-York','Seattle',);
etc.
Getting a final result of 3 separate files called "service-London.jpg", "service-New-York.jpg" and so on.
I'm sure that it should be a pretty simple script, but my knowledge of PHP is really insignificant at the time.

Answer 1

One approach (untested) that you can take is creating a class to duplicate a directory. You mentioned you would need to get the name of the files in a directory and this approach will handle it for you.
It will iterate over an array of names (whatever you pass to it), and copy/rename all of the files inside a directory of your choice. You might want to add some checks in the copy() method (file_exists, etc) but this will definitely get you going and is flexible.
// Instantiate, passing the array of names and the directory you want copied
$c = new CopyDirectory(['London', 'New-York', 'Seattle'], 'location/of/your/directory/');
// Call copy() to copy the directory
$c->copy();
/**
* CopyDirectory will iterate over all the files in a given directory
* copy them, and rename the file by appending a given name
*/
class CopyDirectory
{
private $imageNames; // array
private $directory; // string
/**
* Constructor sets the imageNames and the directory to duplicate
* #param array
* #param string
*/
public function __construct($imageNames, $directory)
{
$this->imageNames = $imageNames;
$this->directory = $directory;
}
/**
* Method to copy all files within a directory
*/
public function copy()
{
// Iterate over your imageNames
foreach ($this->imageNames as $name) {
// Locate all the files in a directory (array_slice is removing the trailing ..)
foreach (array_slice(scandir($this->directory),2) as $file) {
// Generates array of path information
$pathInfo = pathinfo($this->directory . $file);
// Copy the file, renaming with $name appended
copy($this->directory . $file, $this->directory . $pathInfo['filename'] . '-' . $name .'.'. $pathInfo['extension']);
}
}
}
}

Answer 2

You could use a regular expression to build the new filenames, like this:
$fromFolder = 'Images/folder/';
$fromFile = 'service.jpg';
$toFolder = 'Images/folder/';
$imgnames = array('London', 'New-York','Seattle');
foreach ($imgnames as $imgname) {
$newFile = preg_replace("/(\.[^\.]+)$/", "-" . $imgname . "$1", $fromFile);
echo "Copying $fromFile to $newFile";
copy($fromFolder . $fromFile, $toFolder . $newFile);
}
The above will output the following while copying the files:
Copying service.jpg to service-London.jpg
Copying service.jpg to service-New-York.jpg
Copying service.jpg to service-Seattle.jpg
In the above code, set the $fromFolder and $toFolder to your folders, they can be the same folder, if so needed.