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I am practicing PHP on my computer using PHPStorm. I have a directory full of images that I placed in my project. These images were pulled off of a web page and all have names such as "attachment_56602224.jpg." I want to rename them to all numbers (like 1.jpg, 2.jpg) just for simplicity. Here's what I have so far:

$i = 1;
if ($handle = opendir('pics')) {
while (false !== ($fileName = readdir($handle))) {
    rename($fileName, $i);
    $i++;
}
closedir($handle);
}

Here is the error I am getting when I run it in my browser:

Warning: rename(.,1): The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. (code: 32) in C:\Users\Mike\PhpstormProjects\php\learn.php on line 12

Warning: rename(..,2): Access is denied. (code: 5) in C:\Users\Mike\PhpstormProjects\php\learn.php on line 12

Warning: rename(attachment_56602224.jpg,3): The system cannot find the file specified. (code: 2) in C:\Users\Mike\PhpstormProjects\php\learn.php on line 12

And that last error repeats for every image.

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  • possible duplicate of [Using php to rename all files in folder](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11955323/using-php-to-rename-all-files-in-folder) – Alex2php May 17 '15 at 20:35

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the first thing you should do is checking if the files that you are reading are effectively files and not directories, also you should use the relative path for the source and destination file you are renaming. In that snippet code, you are trying to rename a file in the root directory of your project and not in the "pics" subfolder.

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