How to rename all the pictures on a folder to it's timestamp. MM-DD-YY hh:mm:ss

Question

I have a lot of folders with pictures on server, the file names are random and a lot, but every file is a jpg. I need to rename every file on any given folder to the information on the timestamp.

Example. File names 1.jpg , 2.jpg

After convention 12/15/11 10:20:58.jpg , 12/15/11 11:21:50.jpg .

The actual Date format is not important.

P.S. Important that it only modifies the jpg files and not the folder names nor sub-folder content.

Thanks.

your problem is solve or still searching for some logic..... — Ankur Saxena, Nov 08 '12 at 05:51
Yes i'm still searching. Your answer works but i need it on a bulk scale, the folders contain more than 1000 files each. I am curretly trying out Robbo's answer, and am getting an error. I will kip trying, thanks. — Carlos A. Padron C., Nov 08 '12 at 13:19

Robbo · Answer 1 · 2012-11-08T15:52:27.540

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You can use DirectoryIterator.

$dir = new DirectoryIterator('path/to/files');
foreach ($dir AS $file)
{
    if ($file->isDot() OR $file->isDir() OR $file->getExtension() != 'jpg')
    {
        continue;
    }

    // This is just doing it to a timestamp, wrap filemtime in data() to format the name how you like
    rename($file->getPathname(), $file->getPath() . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . filmtime($file->getPathname()) . '.jpg');

}

This is from memory so there might be some issues but I am fairly sure that is what you wanted.

edited Nov 08 '12 at 15:52

answered Nov 08 '12 at 05:25

Robbo

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also be careful, test this first.. we don't want you losing everything somehow. – Robbo Nov 08 '12 at 05:25
Thanks for the answer. I am getting an error "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ';' in /home/capadron/public_html/testsite/test.php on line 11".I am trying to find a solution for this error, bu thanks this was exactly what i was locking for. – Carlos A. Padron C. Nov 08 '12 at 13:22
I did corrected the filmtime( to filemtime(, but get the same error. – Carlos A. Padron C. Nov 08 '12 at 13:42
Yesyou are right. It was something on the server.i had it restarted and it is working find now. Thanks for the big help. – Carlos A. Padron C. Nov 09 '12 at 00:15
should select this as your answer then ;) – Robbo Nov 09 '12 at 03:23

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 08 '12 at 05:55

$req_file="newname.png";//required file
echo $file_name=strtotime(date("m-d-Y H:i:s"));//convert time to string 
$new_filename=$file_name.".png";//creating new file name

$path="C:\\wamp\\www\\practice\\";//path provides
rename("C:\\wamp\\www\\practice\\newname.png", "C:\\wamp\\www\\practice\\".$new_filename);//rename of file
#rename($path.$req_file, $path.$new_filename);//another way of rename of file

convert file name into string stamp like 1344664010.png

How to rename all the pictures on a folder to it's timestamp. MM-DD-YY hh:mm:ss

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