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phplaravel-5
Devender Gupta
Devender Gupta

Reputation: 546

Cannot achieve this date format

I'm trying to name my uploaded image based on the date & time it is being uploaded. So i used the following code to store the image name:

$imageName = date('d-m-y -H-i-s').'.'.$request->image->getClientOriginalExtension();

And it works pretty fine and my image name is like "6-6-2018 -14-14-14". But i want to achieve something like this "6-6-2018 14:14:14 ". So i used the below code but it shows error.

$imageName = date('d-m-y H:i:s').'.'.$request->image->getClientOriginalExtension();

The error is :

Could not move the file "C:\xampp\tmp\php1CBE.tmp" to "C:\xampp\htdocs\test\public/storage/images\16-08-18 18:39:08.jpg" (move_uploaded_file(): Unable to move 'C:\xampp\tmp\php1CBE.tmp' to 'C:\xampp\htdocs\test\public/storage/images\16-08-18 18:39:08.jpg')

How to solve this? Please help me .

Upvotes: 0

Views: 55

Answers (1)

Remco K.
Remco K.

Reputation: 717

You cannot use a colon in a filename but here's a nice alternative

$imageName = date('YmdHis').'.'.$request->image->getClientOriginalExtension();

For example the filename is:

20180816170102.jpg

Where you display the image, you can convert this string to any date format

echo date("d-m-y H:i:s", strtotime(substr($filename, 0, 14));

16-08-18 17:01:01

Another plus is that the files are now also sorted correctly in your filesystem.

20180816170102.jpg
20180813133156.jpg
20180718190809.jpg

Upvotes: 1

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