How to move a file to a new location in Laravel?

Question:

How to move a file to a new location from old path in Laravel?

Solution:

First Use Laravel File Facades function Use File at top of the class. Like,

use File;

Then

if(! File::move($file_path, $target_location))
{
    //File Can't move to the target location
}else{
   //File is successfully moved
}

Real Life example of determining if a file is in that folder and then move the file to the new location or in new path.

$file_full_path = public_path().'/images/students/1200.jpg';
$new_location = public_path().'/images/others/';

if(File::exists($file_full_path))
{
    if(! File::move($file_full_path, $new_location ))
    {
       // The File can't move succseefully
    }else
    {
      // File has moved successfully
    }
}

Now see what's in the backend ? Laravel Core function of move() is -

    /**
     * Move a file to a new location.
     *
     * @param  string  $path
     * @param  string  $target
     * @return bool
     */
    public function move($path, $target)
    {
        return rename($path, $target);
    }

So, Laravel move() function use PHP's  rename() function . Rename any path in the target path.


So, we can now easily move any file to a new location in Laravel. That may be a jpg, png, pdf or any kinds of file. It's a pretty one line function.

Note : To get the file path of any file, then use public_path() like the above code, other wise it can't move file to one location to another location in Laravel.

$file_full_path = public_path().'/images/students/1200.jpg';
$new_location = public_path().'/images/others/';

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