Fixing filename encoding using a PHP console script

Recently i had received an archive with files required for a project. It was awful. The filenames were in ciryllic and on top of that the encoding was broken. So what to do when something like this happens? I wrote a little php script that walks all directories and files and renames the files with the appropriate encoding:

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<?php const FromEncoding = 'utf-8'; const ToEncoding = 'cp1251';     function convertEncoding($filename) {     return mb_convert_encoding($filename, ToEncoding, FromEncoding); }   function traverse($dir) {     $handler = opendir($dir);        if(!$handler) {         echo ("\n* * *\tError: Cannot open directory ($dir)\n");         return 0;     }        echo "* * *\tENTERING: " . $dir . PHP_EOL;        while($filename = readdir($handler)) {         if($filename != '.' && $filename != '..') {             echo $dir . '/' . $filename;                        $newName = convertEncoding($filename);                        rename($dir . '/' . $filename, $dir . '/' . $newName);                        echo "\n\t=>\t" . $newName . PHP_EOL;                        if(is_dir($dir . '/' . $newName)) {                 traverse($dir . '/' . $newName);             }         }     } }   if(is_dir($argv[1])) {     chdir($argv[1]);     traverse(getcwd()); } else {     die("\n* * *\tError: Cannot open directory ($argv[1])\n"); }   echo "\n* * * DONE * * *\n"; ?>

After that just open a terminal window and write:

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1	php mb_conv.php /PATH

After that i found a really good tool that does the same thing, it's called convmv.
If you are using Ubuntu you can open a terminal window and type:

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1 2	sudo apt-get install convmv convmv --notest -r -f cp1251 -t utf8 DIR

Hope that helps someone out there :).