mkdir help

[jowatkins]

Hi,

I'm working on a project at the moment and I want to allow users to add attachments. I've been looking at how to do this for two days now but the information in the manual and in the books I have is a bit thin on the ground on this topic.

I figured out that I need to store the attachments to a directory on the server and reference them by storing the path in the db.

I'm working on this bit of code that I got from the Wellington and Thompson book, and I seem to have hit a snag.

  echo "MailID : $mailid<br/>";
  // creating directory will fail if this is not the first message archived  

  // that's ok
  @ mkdir("archive/$list", 0700);

  // it is a problem if creating the specific directory for this mail fails 
  //if(!mkdir("archive/$list/$mailid", 0700))
	if(!mkdir("archive/$list", 0700))
  {   

    do_html_footer();  

    exit; 
  }

This code originally stored the attachments in a folder that it created called by the mailid. As you can see I changed the mail id aspect to save all attachments to the same folder, which would suit my purposes better, but I got the following error message.

Warning: MkDir failed (File exists) in c:/program files/apache/htdocs/1.otherfiles/pyramid/upload.php on line 79

Is there anyway I can add files to a folder that already exists?

[stuartc1]

You really should check to see if the folder exists before trying to create it.

if (!file_exists($path))  {
 .. then make the directory
} else {
 ... just copy the file to the directory
}

[jowatkins]

Hi,

I think I've got a bit further but I can't seem to find how to check if a directory exists. I found file_exists() but nothing for a directory. Do you know how I might do this?

Thanks in advance,

Jo

[stuartc1]

file_exists() works with directories also... check out file_exists for more info.

[jowatkins]

Thanks, I actually read this the first time, but didn't think it could be applied to directories. I think I'm ready to start coding now.

Thanks again,

Jo