rename() and filesize() Question

My code is not working

[boxfan]

Hi,

I have the following code

$file = "/home/public_html/orders.txt";
 if (file_exists($file)) {
 if (filesize($file) > 5242880) {
 rename($file, "/home/public_html/orders_".date(Ymd).".txt");
 if ($ifarray == 1) {
 $string = join('', $data); 
 $fr = fopen($file,'a');
 fputs($fr, $string);
 } else {
 $fr = fopen($file,'a');
 $data = $data."\n";
 fputs($fr, $data);
 }
 fclose($fr);
} else {
 if ($ifarray == 1) {
 $string = join('', $data); 
 $fr = fopen($file,'a');
 fputs($fr, $string);
 } else {
 $fr = fopen($file,'a');
 $data = $data."\n";
 fputs($fr, $data);
 }
 fclose($fr);
 }
 } else {
 $fr = fopen($file,'a');
$data = $data."\n";
fputs($fr, $data);
 fclose($fr);
 }
}

The filesize

echo filesize($file);

is currently 6187229

For some reason I am not able to change the file name once it exceeds the target filesize.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[Demaestro]

Instead of renaming it you can try pulling the file into memory... then create a new file using the old file data and give it the new name then delete the old file or copy it to an archive somewhere then delete it.