Set DateTime With FileName While Uploading in PHP

To Set DateTime With FileName While Uploading in PHP here is only 3 steps to append a timestamp to the filename in PHP,

• Create a HTML form with input file type.
• Create PHP code to upload the file.
• Setting the date and time on the name of the file using PHP date() function.

Note:

Do not forget to add enctype="multipart/form-data" on form tag, like below.

Also Read: Display Current Date and Time in HTML using JavaScript

Create HTML Form

Also Read: How to Validate Date String in PHP

PHP Code to Append a Timestamp To The Filename

Code Explanations:

• On the first line of code, we check the button clicked or not using PHP isset().
• Then we check the Image file is exists or not in PHP if condition.
• Get the current date and time in PHP using the PHP date("d-m-Y") function.
  • $time = date("d-m-Y")."-".time();
• That time variable is appended to the file name using the concatenation operator.

$fileName = $_FILES['userImage']['name'];
$fileName = $time."-".$fileName ;

• At the last image will upload using PHP move_uploaded_file($tempName, "path/".$fileName )

Here are the complete explanations of how we set or attach the timeWith File Name While Uploading in PHP.

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To know more about handling file uploads in PHP, you can check the official documentation here, https://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php

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Happy Coding..!