append filename

[Tabo]

Hey, i have a page where users upload images, everything fine. However if a file with the same name is uploaded i just

echo 'An image with that name already exists, please change the name and upload it again'; 

However i would prefer it if the name appends, for example if FILE.gif exists it renames the image that is being uploaded to FILE1.gif and so on.

Thanks.

[Twey]

Something like:

if(file_exists($imagename)) {
  while(file_exists($imagename . @++$i));
  $imagename .= $i;
}

[mburt]

Of course, adapting that would include something like:

fwrite(fopen($file,$handle),$filename . $imagename);

Depending on how you write the files.

[Twey]

No it wouldn't... I'm assuming $imagename is the name of the file to write to. It's a cut-and-paste job.

[mburt]

Wouldn't $imagename return the number?

[Twey]

  $imagename .= $i;

Note the dot.