I programatically uploaded some files to wordpress media library by this function: media_handle_upload. this function after adding file to media library returns a number called wordpress_media_attachment_id . now I have some files in media library via their attachment ids.
now for some reasons, I want to make duplicate of them programatically.
That means I want to make a copy of those files with new attachment id.
now please give me a snippet code ?
finally solved my problem by this code:
require_once( ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/image.php' );
$wp_upload_dir = wp_upload_dir();
$imgMeta = wp_get_attachment_metadata( $wordpress_media_attachment_id );
$imgMime = $imgMeta['sizes']['thumbnail']['mime-type'];
$absolutePath = "$wp_upload_dir[basedir]/$imgMeta[file]";
$name = basename($imgMeta['file']);
do{
$rnd = mt_rand();
$name2 = "_$rnd$name";
$path2 = "$wp_upload_dir[path]/$name2";
} while (file_exists($path2));
@copy($absolutePath,$path2);
$attachment = array(
'guid'=> "$wp_upload_dir[url]/$name2",
'post_mime_type' => $imgMime,
'post_title' => $name2,
'post_content' => '',
'post_status' => 'inherit'
);
$image_id = wp_insert_attachment($attachment, $path2);
$attach_data = wp_generate_attachment_metadata( $image_id, $path2 );
wp_update_attachment_metadata( $image_id, $attach_data );
and finally I have a new duplicated file with new attachment id called $image_id