Creating Subdirectories

DragonHighLord

Ok, On the server I have a direcotry called "photos". (which is CHMOD 777) I want to be able to create a subdirectory under photos for whatever user that is logged in if it doesn't already exist. I have tried several different things, but no matter what I try it always wants to create the directory on the root (and of course I get Access Denied). So If $user is logged in, how do I make it look in "photos" and see if there is a directory there called user and then create it if not. Here is the code I am working with now. I broke it down very simply(like making an if do nothing) cause after getting frustrated with it I was stripping it out in parts to se where it was messing up, lol.

$user= "the username from the database of who is logged in";
$userdir= $user;
$imagedir= "photos/{$userdir}";
if( is_dir($imgdir) )
{
//do nothing
echo "Directory already exist";
} else
{
//make directory
mkdir($userdir,777);
}

cosminb

What's the difference betwen $imgdir and $imagedir??

try this:

mkdir( realpath('photos').DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.$user);

DeadFly

$user= "someuser"; 
$imgdir= "photos/{$user}"; 
if( is_dir($imgdir) ) { 
  //do nothing 
  echo "Directory already exist"; 
} else { 
  //make directory 
  mkdir($user,777); 
}

Try this . . .
It's cleaned up a little, and it might have fixed an error for you.

DragonHighLord

Ok I tried that and just get the error:
mkdir() failed (Permission denied)

The photos dir is 777 and it is on the root. So I'm not sure what is going wrong.
Even if I make the directory manually, it's not checking, it doesn't echo already exist, it tries to mkdir and fails. I even put in echos afer the variables to make sure the username was ok and it echos out the user name and the directory as "photos/user"

If I use the code from cosminb, I get the error:
open_basedir restriction in effect. File is in wrong directory

Thinking that maybe you can't mkdir on the server wthout some specail permissions, I even opened an FTP session, tried the mkdir code then closed the ftp session, but that didn't help. I wasn't sure if that would so anything at all, I was willing to try anything, lol