Is_Dir ???

[trooper]

Hi all

I'm creating a comeptition engine

Everytime some decided they want to opt in to receive further emails i want to create a directory that competition.

When there is no directory it works fine (in that it will create the directory. However if the directory exists it still seems to want to create the directory.

here's my code so far

$directory = $this_competition_name;

		 	if(!is_dir($directory))
			{				 						


			}else{
				  mkdir("emaillists/$directory", 0773);
			}

		 	$fp = fopen("emaillists/$this_competition_name/$todays_date.csv", "a");

			fwrite($fp,"$fname,$lname,$email\n");
			fclose($fp);

I want to use !is_dir to decide whether to create the directory. The !is_idr dones'nt seem to work

anyone got any ideas whats wrong

Cheer Gary Mailer

[Anon]

you have to have the absolute path for is_dir .... like if you wanted to check for the scripts/ directotry you would have to use

/usr/local/www/htdocs/scripts/

instead of just scripts/

[trooper]

Nola

Thats fair enough but why does the directory get made the first time a competition is run. But next time it still tries to make the dir!?

Even though i only ask it to create the directory if it doesn't exist?

GM

[Anon]

looks like your if statement is backwards?

if (!is_dir()) {
make dir
} else {
proceed on with life
}

[trooper]

Nola

Thanks for the info about absolute locations.

Yeah i noticed it was wrong. I've now got it working

Once again many thanks

Gary Mailer