mkdir

Talguy

does the mkdir function only work in a unix based system or will it work for windows too. because right now it is tell me that the file exist when i try creating the new folder but the folder does not exist nor was it created.

                     Talguy

dalecosp

Works on any system that PHP can run on.

See the man page [man]mkdir[/man], the first user comment has a message that may help.... 🙂

Talguy

It helps a bit but i still don't understand why i am getting this error. I see how it returns a false meaning that here is a directory already with that name, but there is no directory in the path that I said to create it in.

bogu

Do u have the write rights?

Talguy

yes I do, I am testing on my own machine

iNFERiON

Try debugging the problem by using this:

// Set directory name
$dir = "./test";
// Check if directory exists, remove if so
if(is_dir($dir)) {
echo "Removing $dir<br>";
rmdir($dir);
}
// If directory gone, create it
if(!is_dir($dir)) {
echo "Creating $dir<br>";
$create = mkdir($dir, 0700);
if(!$create) {
echo "Could not create directory !";
}
}

What output do you get when you run this ?

Talguy

iNFERiON I put in your code and mod it to fit my design which i have to say my coding is not good at all, but when i run the app it creates a directory in my images directory but in my thumbnail directory. Now i just want everybody to know that I am a really new web programmer and have been programming c++ for about a year because my engineering major required it for some odd reason.

so this is what my code looks like so far

<?php
  include("config.inc.php");
  //include("functions.inc.php");

  $category_name = $_POST['category_name'];



function add_category( $category_name, $images_dir )
{
  // Check to see if there is a directory with that name and delete it
  if(is_dir($category_name)) {
    echo "Removing $dir<br>";
    rmdir($category_name);
  }
  // If directory gone, create it
  if(!is_dir($category_name)) {
    echo "Creating $dir<br>";
	mysql_query( "INSERT INTO gallery_category(`category_name`) VALUES('".addslashes( $category_name )."')" );
    $create = mkdir($images_dir . "/" . $category_name, 0700);
	$create2 = mkdir($thumbs_dir . "/" . $category_name, 0700);
	if(!$create || !$create2) {
      if(!$create) {
        echo "Could not create directory! " . $category_name . " in the " . $images_dir . "folder";
      }
	  if(!$create2) {
	    echo "Could not create directory! " . $category_name . " in the " . $thumbs_dir . "folder";
      }
	}
  } 
}
// Call: add_category( “Category Name” );



  add_category( $category_name, $images_dir );
  $result_final .= "The category " . "\"" . $category_name . "\"" . " was created successfully.";
?>




<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Picture upload</title>
</head>

  <body>
    <?php echo $result_final; ?>
    <a href="index.php">Back to Gallery</a>
  </body>
</html>