Why doesn't copy work?

Question

PHP

There is a code:

<?php
require 'connect.php';
$sql_select = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE DATEDIFF(blok, NOW()) = 3";
$result = mysql_query($sql_select);
if (!$result) {
return;
}
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {

mail($row['email'], 'Внимание!!', 'Скоро ваш аккаунт будет заблокирован!', $from);
$file = 'vost.php';
$newfile = "../landing/{$row['login']}/vost.php";

if (!copy($file, $newfile))	;


}

it notifies the client by mail that 3 days before the account is blocked, the notification is ok, but the copy function, i.e. second part of the code, copying doesn't work, why?

Answer 1

In your condition:
Get the error message using php.net/manual/en/function.error-get-last.php and output or log it somewhere. And it becomes clear what is wrong.

Answer 2

The copy() function does not copy files to non-existent directories.
Before copying the file to the directory, you need to check if there is a directory called $row['login'] and if there is no such directory yet, then create it php.net/manual/ru/function.mkdir.php
And after that use copy( )

Answer 3

The use of the rename() function instead of copy() helped me, who would have thought ..)