How do I make a dirctory in php ?

Anon

I am wanting to know how to make a directoy in php?

This is how I made a file in a directory..

$newfile=(fopen("$basedir/$user/index.php","w"));
fputs($newfile,"<?\n");
fputs($newfile,"\$pagename='$pagename';\n");
fputs($newfile,"\$usertable='$usertable';\n");
fputs($newfile,"include(\"guest.php\");\n");
fputs($newfile,"?>\n");
fclose($newfile);

So If I Installed it in a script it will make a file in a predetermined directory..

but I want to install the file what $user equals to..
example

http://www.mysite.com/username/index.php
http://www.mysite.com/myname/index.php

I am creating a script called create.php and it needs to create a directory of whatever
$user equals at that time.

toma42

mkdir. Try the manual.

abelajohnb

Hello,

I have attempted both:

mkdir('/export/www/4cm/temp/temp/', 0777);

and:

$oldumask = umask(0);
mkdir('/export/www/4cm/temp/temp/', 0777); // or even 01777 so you get the sticky bit set
umask($oldumask);

but I get the error:

Warning: MkDir failed (Permission denied) in /export/www/www.4cm.com/temp/mkdir.php on line 4

any ideas why?

Thanks
JbA

Anon

I found out how... for all of you that had the same question.. here it is.. It only took me 3 hours since it a simple request nobody seems to have it..

to make a directory you can do something like this:

$default_dir = "/home/apache/htdocs/test";
if(file_exists($default_dir)) rmdir($default_dir);
mkdir($default_dir, 0777);

rmdir() ==> removes directory
mkdir () ==> makes a directory

you may need to modify to fit your scripts.
the current secripts check then deletes the dir then makes a new dir..

abelajohnb

I am still getting the same error. Could we have something on our server setup in such a way to keep it from working?

Thanks.
JbA

yelvington

Not surprisingly, "permission denied" means exactly that. A Unix Web server does NOT ordinarily have permission to monkey around with the filesystem. This is an systems administration/security issue. If the Web server is going to modify a file (and a directory is just a special kind of file), then that file must either be owned by the Web server, or it must have its permissions mask set to allow the Web server to write to the file. To make the change, you will have to log into the Web server as either root or as the file's owner, and use a command such as chmod (or, as root, chown or chgrp).