Apart from the staple file_save_data() function, we have a few other ones that can come in handy if we are dealing with managed files. Here's a few of them.
If we want to copy a file from one place to another while making sure a new database record is created, we can use file_copy(). It takes three parameters:
- The FileInterface entity that needs to be copied
- The destination URI where it should go
- The flag indicating what to do in case a file with the same name exists
The parameters are the same as for file_save_data().
Apart from the actual copying, this function also invokes hook_file_copy() which allows modules to respond to files being copied.
Very similarly to file_copy(), we also have ...
