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OT: Create a folder using PHP?

  • September 4, 2006
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I'm trying to create a folder in PHP, and I'm using this markup -

<?php
$dir = 'test';
echo(!mkdir('/images/'.$dir)?'Fail':'Success');
?>

Shouldn't that work (I'm hosted on Windows, but it's PHP5)?

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Inspiring
September 4, 2006
On 04 Sep 2006 in macromedia.dreamweaver.appdev, Murray *ACE* wrote:

> Exactly the page I was using.
>
> When I try the code I posted, I get this -
>
> Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: No such file or directory in
> W:\Webspace\resadmin\madison\madisonconcrete.com\www\x-mkdir.php on
> line 11

echo(!mkdir('/images/'.$dir)?'Fail':'Success');

- The notes indicate that you may need to use backslashes on a W*ndows
server.
- Do you need to use the full path? You're specifying from the root. Or
you may want to try with a relative path.
- What happens if you do just the bare function, without putting it
inside the echo and ternary operator?

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Inspiring
September 4, 2006
Exactly the page I was using.

When I try the code I posted, I get this -

Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: No such file or directory in
W:\Webspace\resadmin\madison\madisonconcrete.com\www\x-mkdir.php on line 11
Fail


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"Joe Makowiec" <makowiec@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
news:Xns9834645C959D4makowiecatnycapdotrE@216.104.212.96...
> On 04 Sep 2006 in macromedia.dreamweaver.appdev, Murray *ACE* wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to create a folder in PHP, and I'm using this markup -
>>
>> <?php
>> $dir = 'test';
>> echo(!mkdir('/images/'.$dir)?'Fail':'Success');
>> ?>
>>
>> Shouldn't that work (I'm hosted on Windows, but it's PHP5)?
>
> How 'bout this?
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mkdir.php
>
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Anonymous
September 4, 2006
you need to make the directory structure one level at a time. so make the images directory, then make your test directory. once the images folder is created your code should work, just remove the first forward slash (before images). this works on my wamp server.

also check out this comment on the php.net page:

quote:

cost me an hour to get recursive switch to work in windows with php 5.2.0, so share it here. The key is backward slash in windows , this php version doesn't recognize forward slash as valid path separator for mkdir(), though other functions support forward-slashed paths just fine. The following example works in Windows:
<?php
$mypath="testdir\subdir\test";
mkdir($mypath,0777,TRUE);
?>
This doesn't work in windows:
<?php
$mypath="testdir/subdir/test";
mkdir($mypath,0777,TRUE);
?>
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Inspiring
September 4, 2006
On 04 Sep 2006 in macromedia.dreamweaver.appdev, Murray *ACE* wrote:

> I'm trying to create a folder in PHP, and I'm using this markup -
>
> <?php
> $dir = 'test';
> echo(!mkdir('/images/'.$dir)?'Fail':'Success');
> ?>
>
> Shouldn't that work (I'm hosted on Windows, but it's PHP5)?

How 'bout this?

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mkdir.php

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