PHP ActiveX

SharePoint -- Rename Folder

This example shows how to rename SharePoint folder.

Renaming a folder is not straightforward. Apparently, the information published by Microsoft is incorrect and simply doesn't work (the information about how to update a folder by using the MERGE method is incorrect).

To rename a folder requires two steps, as demonstrated by this example.

PHP ActiveX

<?php

$success = 0;

// This requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$http = new COM("Chilkat.Http");

// If SharePoint Windows classic authentication is used, then set the 
// Login, Password, LoginDomain, and NtlmAuth properties.
$http->Login = 'SHAREPOINT_USERNAME';
$http->Password = 'SHAREPOINT_PASSWORD';
$http->LoginDomain = 'SHAREPOINT_NTLM_DOMAIN';
$http->NtlmAuth = 1;

// The more common case is to use SharePoint Online authentication (via the SPOIDCRL cookie).
// If so, do not set Login, Password, LoginDomain, and NtlmAuth, and instead
// establish the cookie as shown at SharePoint Online Authentication

// The first step in renaming a file is send a GET to the /ListItemAllFields endpoint:
// Indicate we want a JSON response.
$http->SetRequestHeader('Accept','application/json;odata=verbose');

// In this example, we want to rename the folder "/Documents/ChilkatTest" to "/Documents/ChilkatTest2"
// If your Sharepoint site is within a site collection, then use "https://SHAREPOINT_HTTPS_DOMAIN/sites/teamA/_api/web/GetFolderByServerRelativeUrl('/sites/teamA/Documents/ChilkatTest')/ListItemAllFields" where "teamA" is the name of the site.
$sAllFields = $http->quickGetStr('https://SHAREPOINT_HTTPS_DOMAIN/_api/web/GetFolderByServerRelativeUrl('/Documents/ChilkatTest')/ListItemAllFields');
if ($http->LastMethodSuccess == 0) {
    print $http->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

$json = new COM("Chilkat.JsonObject");
$json->Load($sAllFields);
$json->EmitCompact = 0;

print $json->emit() . "\n";

// The JSON response will look like this:
// We'll need to get the "id", "etag", and "type" for the next step.  The "id" for the
// sample below is "Web/Lists(guid'b0d92cec-4be1-4e52-943d-ebcb432e1c3b')/Items(62)"

// 
// { 
//   "d": { 
//     "__metadata": { 
//       "id": "Web/Lists(guid'b0d92cec-4be1-4e52-943d-ebcb432e1c3b')/Items(62)",
//       "uri": "https://SHAREPOINT_HTTPS_DOMAIN/_api/Web/Lists(guid'b0d92cec-4be1-4e52-943d-ebcb432e1c3b')/Items(62)",
//       "etag": "\"4\"",
//       "type": "SP.Data.DocumentsItem"
//     },
//     ...
//     ...
//     "FileSystemObjectType": 1,
//     "Id": 62,
//     "ContentTypeId": "0x012000FA905915D7D8F7458C1A0AF1E981BFF5",
//     "Title": "ChilkatTest",
//     "OData__dlc_DocId": null,
//     "OData__dlc_DocIdUrl": null,
//     "URL": null,
//     "DocumentSetDescription": null,
//     "EditorId": 25,
//     "ID": 62,
//     "Created": "2017-04-12T19:18:29",
//     "AuthorId": 25,
//     "Modified": "2017-04-12T19:49:15",
//     "OData__CopySource": null,
//     "CheckoutUserId": null,
//     "OData__UIVersionString": "1.0",
//     "GUID": "71f30f44-e33a-48e7-b4d8-9d619ba1ad69"
//   }
// }

// -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Step 2...

// To rename a folder, we're going to POST to
// https://SHAREPOINT_HTTPS_DOMAIN/_api/Web/Lists(guid'b0d92cec-4be1-4e52-943d-ebcb432e1c3b')/Items(62)
// with a request body containing the following JSON:
// 
//     { "__metadata": { "type": "THE_TYPE_FROM_ABOVE" }, "Title": "New title", "FileLeafRef": "New title"}
// 

// Build the Path, which is "/_api/" + the id from above.
$sbPath = new COM("Chilkat.StringBuilder");
$sbPath->Append('/_api/');
$sbPath->Append($json->stringOf('d.__metadata.id'));

$req = new COM("Chilkat.HttpRequest");
$req->HttpVerb = 'POST';
$req->Path = $sbPath->getAsString();

// We need to add a form digest value in the X-RequestDigest header field.
// See this example for details on
// how to get (and cache) a form digest value
$req->AddHeader('X-RequestDigest','SHAREPOINT_FORM_DIGEST');

// Set the Content-Type, and indicate that a JSON response is desired.
$req->ContentType = 'application/json;odata=verbose';
$req->AddHeader('Accept','application/json;odata=verbose');

// We need a few more headers...
$req->AddHeader('IF-MATCH',$json->stringOf('d.__metadata.etag'));
$req->AddHeader('X-HTTP-Method','MERGE');

// Create and add the JSON body.
$jsonBody = new COM("Chilkat.JsonObject");
$jsonBody->UpdateString('__metadata.type',$json->stringOf('d.__metadata.type'));
$jsonBody->UpdateString('Title','ChilkatTest2');
$jsonBody->UpdateString('FileLeafRef','ChilkatTest2');
$req->LoadBodyFromString($jsonBody->emit(),'utf-8');

// Send the POST using HTTPS.
$bUseTls = 1;
$resp = new COM("Chilkat.HttpResponse");
$success = $http->HttpSReq('SHAREPOINT_HTTPS_DOMAIN',443,$bUseTls,$req,$resp);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $http->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// The response body contains JSON.
// When successful, it will be empty.
$json->Load($resp->BodyStr);
$json->EmitCompact = 0;

print 'Response status code = ' . $resp->StatusCode . "\n";

// The expected success response code is 204.
if ($resp->StatusCode != 204) {
    print 'Response status code = ' . $resp->StatusCode . "\n";
    print $json->emit() . "\n";
    print 'Failed' . "\n";
    exit;
}

// The response body is empty for a 204 (success) response...
print 'Success.' . "\n";

?>