How to Copy a File From One Folder to Another With PHP?

Today’s article, we will show you how to copy a file from folder to another by using PHP. For this we use default PHP function copy.  Basically, it has two parameters to work a copy function. This file will overwrite if the file already exists in the folder.

See the below example function.

<?php
$file = '/var/www/html/example.txt';
$newfile = '/var/www/html/example.txt.bak';
 
if (!copy($file, $newfile)) {
    echo "failed to copy $file";
}else{
    echo "copied $file into $newfile";
}
?>