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Created January 24, 2011 02:34
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Checks if the file name exists, if it does uses recursion to append the file name with a number that has not yet been used.
function duplicate_fixer($fname, $count = 0, $old_fname = null){
if($count != 0){
$boom = explode(".", $old_fname);
$boom[count($boom)-2] = $boom[count($boom)-2].$count.".";
$fname = implode($boom);
}
if(file_exists($fname)){
if($count == 0) $old_fname = $fname;
$count++;
$fname = duplicate_fixer($fname, $count, $old_fname);
return $fname;
} else {
return $fname;
}
}
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