mkdir in existing directory

[metaphist]

I'm trying to make a new directory in an existing one. I'm doing something like:

mkdir(existingfolder/existingfolder/newfolder, 0755, true);

However, this makes a whole new nested directory instead of putting "newfolder" within the existing folders. Do I have to navigate to the existing directories first or something?

[bradgrafelman]

PHP will do exactly as you tell it to. Is the first of the existing folders within the same directory as the PHP script? PHP will do exactly as you tell it; as your path stands, you're telling PHP to look for the "existingfolder" directory in the same as the script, then "existingfolder" within that folder, and there create "newfolder."

[bretticus]

Your path must be the full path relative to the root of the machine you are using and not your virtual root (declared in apache config or .htaccess)

Try appending the full path before it. You can use DOC_ROOT to find that out...

mkdir($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/existingfolder/existingfolder/newfolder', 0755, true);

[metaphist]

Whoops! Turned out to be a typo on my part, so it was making a new one with the typo. Now I feel dumb :o