Re: uploading a file with the same name

Thank you all for your suggestions! I used amphiplex's suggestion, with a small alteration:

$num="";
while(-e "$Data/$category/$num$imagename"){
  $num++;
}
$imagename = $num.$imagename;
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That works great (although the other suggestions would have worked just as well, but I believe in KISS!) I'll have a look at merlyn's column once my brain has stopped being jelly-like...

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Re: Re: uploading a file with the same name by amphiplex (Monk) on Jul 24, 2002 at 14:25 UTC
Nice to hear that :), even though my answer was partly wrong (not the code, I hope, but the part about yours checking for `foo0`) ---- amphiplex	[reply]
Re: Re: uploading a file with the same name by shotgunefx (Parson) on Jul 29, 2002 at 08:06 UTC
One thing to look out for is that if you are expecting lots of images and usage , most 'NIXs do linear scans of directories, meaning that with a lot of images, it can get very, very slow. If you ever used Cache::FileCache you might notice the way it uses digests of the names (for fairly random distribution) and splits the storage into sub-directories. /dir/a/ab/abcd/abcdefghijk.gif If you don't expect that kind of usage, I would just go the simple route. You can always modify it later. (Though if people are linking to this stuff, you might want to think about it now.) -Lee "To be civilized is to deny one's nature."	[reply]