[RESOLVED] mkdir and copy problem

Hendricus

Hi guys,

Thanx for taking a look at this! Going crazy here...

I wrote a script (which works on my Apache under WinXP) to create a folder and then copy a list of images form another url into it. The folder is being created in a parent dir with chmod 777 and this works. But the files aren't copied into it. If I copy them to the parent dir they do get copied, any reason for this???

$dir = "copied_images/";
$tmpdirname = str_replace(".", "", $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'].time());
if (!file_exists($dir.$tmpdirname))
	{
		$old = umask(0);
		mkdir($dir.$tmpdirname,0777);
		umask($old);
	}
for($i=0;$i<count($photos)	;$i++)
	{
		if(strstr($photos[$i], "http://"))
			{
				$img = basename($photos[$i]);
				copy($photos[$i], $dir.$tmpdirname.'/'.$img);
				// works if I do:
				//copy($photos[$i], $dir.$img);

		}
}

Any clues???

Cheers

bogu

Befor copying the image, check if the directory ($dir.$tmpdirname) exists: is_dir

Hendricus

Hi Bogu,

I did before and it is a dir! I can see it thru ftp as well. I have been messing around with the script a bit more and found out that if I tried writing to a tmpdirname created by this script before, for instance:

copy($photos[$i], $dir."129054721871150899924/".$img);

That this won't work! But if I delete this php created folder from the server with my ftp programm and created one by hand and name it exactly the same and chmod it 777 as well that the script WILL write the images to it!

Going crazy here!!!!!!

Please help!
Cheers

PS. am working on *nix now....

Cent

I had a similar problem and couldn't figure it out. Directories were being created but the files weren't being moved. Somehow the directory created by PHP didn't have the right access privileges to be able to move files there. So instead, I had to create the directory using a FTP script in PHP. Not the most elegant solution but under the situation, it was the best -- directories were only created by the admin.

Best,
Cent

bogu

I made this script:

<?php
	/* dir where the files will be copyed from ... */
	$dir_ = "avatars";
	/* reading files from the dir ... */
	if ($handle = opendir($dir_)) { 
	   /* This is the correct way to loop over the directory. */ 
	   while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) { 
	       if ($file != "." && $file != "..") { 
				$photos[] = $file; 
	       } 
	   } 
	   closedir($handle); 
	}

/* dir where the tmp dir will be created ... */
$tmp_dirs_ = "tmp";

/* dir where the files will be copy */
$tmpdirname = mktime(); 

/* if the dir is not there, create it ... */
if (!is_dir("{$tmp_dirs_}/{$tmpdirname}")) { 
	if (mkdir("{$tmp_dirs_}/{$tmpdirname}",0777))
		echo "Directory {$tmpdirname} successfully create<br>";
	else 
		echo "Directory {$tmpdirname} was not create<br>";

}

/* if the dir was successfully created, copy the files ... */
if (is_dir("{$tmp_dirs_}/{$tmpdirname}")) { 
    foreach ($photos as $value) {
    	if (copy("{$dir_}/{$value}","{$tmp_dirs_}/{$tmpdirname}/{$value}")) {
    		chmod("{$tmp_dirs_}/{$tmpdirname}/{$value}",0777);
    		echo "File [{$value}] successfully copied<br>";
    	} else {
    		echo "Error copying file [{$value}]<br />";
    	}
    }
}
?>

And it is successfully creating a dir and copy all the file from another dir to that dir ...

Hendricus

Cent wrote:
I had a similar problem and couldn't figure it out. Directories were being created but the files weren't being moved. Somehow the directory created by PHP didn't have the right access privileges to be able to move files there. So instead, I had to create the directory using a FTP script in PHP. Not the most elegant solution but under the situation, it was the best -- directories were only created by the admin.

Best,
Cent

How much can you hate SAFE_MODE!!! But you were right, this was the only way to fix it! I used this before, well in a different way but thought something else was wrong now. How stupid can it be.... mkdir 0777 will let you create a folder but then using copy to write files to it, is a big no no! Is there people at the php group getting a hard on whilst coming up with these ridiculous ideas??

Well I used a FtpMkdir van Han van Hoof on the php.net forum and changed it somewhat to fit my needs and it works like a charm now...

Thanx all!