All excellent points, only issue I see is one of your suggestions was written wrong. You turned basic my arithmetic operation into a variable with an assignment operator without adding a = sign

$outdir = "_" . ($year+1900) . "\\" . ($mon+1) . "\\" ;

For a file modified today, Aug 26 2011 that would return

$year = 111
$mon = 7
$outdir = "_" . ($year+=1900) . "\\" . ($mon+=1) . "\\" ;

That will return what were actually looking for, tho I typically just use the $mon++ anyway for that and they both give.

$year = 2011
$mon = 8

In any case, thank you all for the suggestions I clearly overlooked some important issues too though oddly enough everything still worked ok i'll rewrite it for simplicity.

In reply to Re^2: Moving files to subfolders based on their last modified date by shadowfox
in thread Moving files to subfolders based on their last modified date by shadowfox

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