creating files in directories:

[E_ditor]

i wanted to create a file in a directory to be more ogranized and didnt want to have thousands of files in the same spot. i can make files in the same spot as the script but not in other directories.
<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
MakeDirectory("tst", $mode = 0777);
function MakeDirectory($dir, $mode = 0777)
{
if (is_dir($dir) || @mkdir($dir,$mode)) return TRUE;
if (!MakeDirectory(dirname($dir),$mode)) return FALSE;
return @mkdir($dir,$mode);

}
chmod($dir, 0777);
chmod($ourFileName , 0777);
$ourFileName = "test.txt";
$ourFileHandle = fopen($ourFileName, 'w')or die("error opening or creating file");
fclose($ourFileHandle);

?>

Anther question, can MakeDirectory(); function be used to create a directory and in that anther directory? because that didnt work for me either.

[leatherback]

Hi,

Not sure, but it could have to do with using filepaths. I use the full server-to-folder parth when creating folders:

// test whether the folder exists
if(! is_dir($root.$path))
  {                                             // if not create the new folder
    $newdir = $root.$path;   

if(mkdir($newdir, 0755))
  {
  $directorymade = 1;
  $fname = "index.php";                     // To make sure the first page in a folder is index.php
  }
else
  {
  return("Unfortunately, I was unable to create the folder $path on this server. Your page was not created");
  }
   }