MKDIR and Need To Move A Directory

[gameboy]

Hello,

Have a members login script, and when member has successfully joined and upon first time login want to make a directory for them, then give them a choice of four different skins.

The latter would be held within four different directories, C/W all other files and folders consisting of an entire members area, so once they've logged in, they would select the skin (folder) and that would be moved into the new directory created for them.

How do I move the directory and at what point should I be making the new members directory. Also would this need to be 777, even though they wont be writing to it, I ask because I'm guessing the script will have to write to it to move the folder.

D)

[Weedpacket]

In modern operating systems, moving a directory from one location as another is the same as [man]rename[/man]ing it (it's just an update of the filesystem index).

[gameboy]

Weedpacket; wrote:

In modern operating systems, moving a directory from one location as another is the same as [man]rename[/man]ing it (it's just an update of the filesystem index).

Hello, Sorry, I don't understand. I have four folders on my site, each contains a full members area, so when a new member logs-in for the first time, they can select a skin.

My problem is how to do it? I have realised I don't want to move the directory, I need to copy the contents into the members folder.

What I'm not sure of is do I MKdir first or move files then mkdir, also even though members will not write to directory the script will (I think) as it must copy the files.

So I'm right in saying this must be CHMOD 777.

[ClarkF1]

You'll need to use mkdir first cause you can't copy the files to a non-existent directory