move all files in a folder to another?

Question

when moving one file from one location to another i use

rename('path/filename', 'newpath/filename'); 

how do you move all files in a folder to another folder? tried this one without result:

rename('path/*', 'newpath/*'); 

Answer 1

A slightly verbose solution:

// Get array of all source files $files = scandir("source"); // Identify directories $source = "source/"; $destination = "destination/"; // Cycle through all source files foreach ($files as $file) {   if (in_array($file, array(".",".."))) continue;   // If we copied this successfully, mark it for deletion   if (copy($source.$file, $destination.$file)) {     $delete[] = $source.$file;   } } // Delete all successfully-copied files foreach ($delete as $file) {   unlink($file); }