Creating Files and Directories

[Anon]

Hey!
What I wanted for my site was a user signup thing, which I got of this site. Ive configured it so it does xactly what i want, and ive got it to store extra info, like a sorta profile. What I wanted to know, is it possible to get php to create a directory (mkdir just said premission denied) of the users name, then inside that, a default page which can load up their profile?
Id like it so someone can go to http://www.domainname.com/users/$user_name
then get that users profile.
If you can help, id be really grateful!
thanx

[Anon]

I don't think I would want users creating directories on my server and then loading files, but it can be done.

Depending on the platform you are running on, mkdir can create directories with proper permissions. If you are on A *nix box with Apache and PHP as an Apache mod, then your scripts run as the apache user (usually, nobody or apache). In order for your scripts to be able to create a drectory, apache's user would have to have X and R permissions on the dir you want to create the sub dirs in.

If PHP runs as a CGI wrapper, then the user your scripts run as need to have the proper perms.

Don't forget to check if a dir exists before you create it.