FileRenamer Tutorial - PHP File Renamer package blog

By Sergii Pryz

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Objective

FileRenamer  solves problem of renaming files according strategy with saving folders structure.
Four goals were achieved:

• Original source files are not changed
• Folder structure is saved
  
• Simply to add new rename strategy
  
• Report of renamed process in .csv format is created

Installations

There are two thing for care about:

• Add write permission to the FileRenamer folder. Or create folder /data/report in the FileRenamer root directory and set write permission to it.
• Check if destination folder has write permission

Add new Strategies

• The first, new strategy should extends "FileRenamer\Strategy\AbstractStrategy" class or implements "FileRenamer\Strategy\StrategyInterface"
• The second, registry new strategy to the /configs/strategies.ini:

  [shortcut]
  class = Strategy class
  desc  = Strategy description
  

• Finally check result using console command:
  

  php frcon.php -l

Frequency Asked Questions

1. What is default destination path of renamed files?
   Default destination path is a parent folder of source folder.
   E.g. source path /var/www/test default destination path would be /var/www/test_renamed_YYYY_mm_dd_HH_ii_ss