Re: [PHP] Creating dynamic names for images

2002-12-05 Thread Marek Kilimajer
I use this function: function sec_move_uploaded_file($tmp_name,$dir, $name) { if(file_exists($dir.'/'.$name)) { $ext=strrchr($name,'.'); $basename=substr($name,0,strlen($name)-strlen($ext)); $i=2; while(file_exists($dir.'/'.$basename.$i.$ext) ) { $i++;

Re: [PHP] Creating dynamic names for images

2002-12-04 Thread Justin French
well, a) use a table in the DB with the primary key (id) as an auto-increment column. 1, 2, 3 etc. Use this ID as the name of the file 1.jpg, 2.gif, and perhaps store the filetype / extension as well, so that you know what filename to look for in the folder. b) something as simple as file_exists

Re: [PHP] Creating dynamic names for images

2002-12-04 Thread Joakim Andersson
Davíð Örn Jóhannsson wrote: I have a situation where I allow users to upload images, and I store the names of the images in a database and the images I store in a some folder on the server, but what I would like to do is to dynamically create names for the images and dont ever have to worry about

Re: [PHP] Creating dynamic names for images

2002-12-04 Thread Jason Wong
On Thursday 05 December 2002 00:48, Davíð Örn Jóhannsson wrote: > I have a situation where I allow users to upload images, and I store the > names of the images in a database and the images I store in a some > folder on the server, but what I would like to do is to dynamically > create names for t

[PHP] Creating dynamic names for images

2002-12-04 Thread Davíð Örn Jóhannsson
I have a situation where I allow users to upload images, and I store the names of the images in a database and the images I store in a some folder on the server, but what I would like to do is to dynamically create names for the images and dont ever have to worry about if this name exists and with