On signup create directory

Anon

Hi there
Anyone know how to dynamically create a directory using PHP? Just when a user signs up i need it to create a directory named the users username.

Also, anyone know how to dynamically put an "index.php" into that directory?

Thanx

Jonathan

khaine

To create a directory just call mkdir with the pathname to make i.e. mkdir("/usr/local/apache/htdocs/users/newuser");

As for making an index.php. why not just open it as a file write the contents and then close it. It is just a file after all.

Mark.

Anon

// create directory from username
// make sure you have the correct path from the root directory of your server to where the new directory is to be created
$directpath = "";
mkdir("$directpath/$username", 0777);

// insert blankindex page into users new directory
// create a directory that has your blankindex.php template to be placed into the users newly created directory
copy ("$directpath/user_template/blankindex.php", "$directpath/$username/index.php");

// protect the pages within the new users directory
opendir("$directpath/$username");
chmod("$directpath/$username", 0777);
chmod("$directpath/$username/index.php", 0777);

Anon

Don't quote me on this but ask to get other opinions, but if you are going to create a new directory for every new user and you are planning on having several thousand users you are going to slow down your server each time some visits your site looking up a user directory..

yourdomain/user1
yourdomain/user2
yourdomain/user3
yourdomain/user4
yourdomain/user5
yourdomain/user6
yourdomain/user7

think about that a hundred or even a thousand times over. i know the limit for directories are endless but after a certain point the server it going to file the hit of alpha search each directory to get to the users correct path.

Anon

So what is the best way of doing it do you think?

khaine

One word.. Database. actually why did you want each user to have a seperate directory??

Anon

Well i am making my own site that allows users to make theyre own CV's/Resumes online, so it makes sence to give them a URL like;

www.***.com/james_belton

How can a database be used to do this?

khaine

Storing the data in a database is relatively easy its only alphanumerics after all the tricky part would be recalling it as you want to. I see why you want to use directories. A different but just as easy approcah would be to store the cv's as a file under root. i.e. have .../htdocs/james_belton.html then let the browser read in that file.

Anon

Add the following to your apache httpd.conf if you don't have access create an .htaccess within your root directory.

-------- Apache --------

<Location /resume>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Location>

if you are using apache on a WinOS Server you need to add load the following module

LoadModule php4_module
/php/sapi/php4apache.dll

------ .htaccess -------

ForceType application/x-httpd-php

------- resume ---------

Also within your root directory you need to create your resume file without the .php extention.

$URL_ARRAY = explode ("/" , $REQUEST_URI);
$URL_TWO = $URL_ARRAY[2];

select your the user's resume from the URL Array

in this case:
SELECT * FROM $table WHERE username = '$URL_TWO' ");

Doing the above will give your users resumes the following URL:

http://yoursite.com/resume/username

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