making subdirectories

[kashmirekat]

Could someone please show me how to make subdirectories using mkdir shown via a listbox? I have tried numerous things, but mine just keeps making a directory where the script is located. Grr.

Here's my code. It's a tad different from the post I originally did because I started over to see if that might help. It didn't. This is so frustrating.

<form name="form1" action="<? echo $PHP_SELF ?>" method="post">
<?
if($rename)
rename($listbox,$value);

$dirname1 = getcwd();

if($chdir) {
$dirname = ("$dirname1/$listbox"); 
$ch = chdir("$dirname1/$listbox");
//I'm thinking it has something to do with right here.  When it 
//makes the dir, it doesn't seem to recognize this path.  It just 
//goes back to $dirname1
$mk = $ch;
}
else { $dirname = $dirname1; 
$mk = $dirname1; }

if($mkdir) {
mkdir("$mk/$value"); }
?>
<select name="listbox" size=4>
<? 
   $dir = opendir ($dirname);
   while ($file = readdir ($dir) ) {
   if (is_dir($dir))
   { print "<option name=$file value=$file>$file/<br>"; }
   else {
   $filesize = filesize($file);
   $kbfile = round($filesize/1024,2);
   print "<option name=$file value=$file>$file ($kbfile kb)<br>";
   }
   }
   closedir ($dir);
?>
</select>
<input name="value" type="text" value="">
<input type="submit" name="rename" value="Rename">
<input type="submit" name="chdir" value="Change Dir">
<input type="submit" name="mkdir" value="Make Dir">
</form>  

Thank you for any help.
Happy Holidays!

[AstroTeg]

Check the $dirname1 value. If you do not have a leading slash, the PHP script will assume you wish to work in the current directory (the leading slash will tell PHP to work off the root directory). The trick is you will need to specify the full directory path.

The other approach is to play with "../" which says go up 1 directory from the current directory.

[kashmirekat]

That doesn't seem to be be working either. 🙁 When I echo out $mk, I get a value of 1.

Here's a setup of it:
Code Output

[AstroTeg]

I took a peak at the HTML. I'd suggest not using "value" as a name of a form item. That is borderline a reserved word.

Also for your list option box, you'll want to have quotes wrapped around the data for value= so you would have:

<option value=".">

Do the same for name= <-- put quotes around the value.

For the list box, I'd think you would want to keep that the same name so when the data comes back to the form, you don't have to test all the list options but one.