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Languages :: PHP :: mkdir
By: tacman7 U.S.A.  Date: 12/09/2003 00:00:00  English  Points: 60 Status: Answered
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In the page I wrote for another site I created directorys for each real estate listing using their mls number:

mkdir($mls);

worked fine.

Now on this yahoo (geocities) site it doesn't work.

I made a test file dir.php

<?php
echo"starting if";
if mkdir("test"){
echo" made directory";
}else{
echo"failed directory";
}
?>

but it's just blank and does nothing.
Any help appreciated, thanks

phpinfo is at
<A HREF="http://www.inlandvalley.net/info.php">http://www.inlandvalley.net/info.php</a>
By: VGR Date: 12/09/2003 16:28:00 English  Type : Assist
1) either you don't have the rights over the directory
2) or they deactivated the mkdir() function - it's rather standard

to sort this out, execute php_info(); on the server and look for "mkdir" in the "--without" list ;-)
By: tacman7 Date: 13/09/2003 00:11:00 English  Type : Comment
There are a lot of things they don't support:
<A HREF="http://webhosting.yahoo.com/v/php/support.html">http://webhosting.yahoo.com/v/php/support.html</a>

But mkdir seems to be something they do support.

I can write to a file... from a script.

I'll have to contact them.

Thanks
By: saknarak Date: 13/09/2003 01:25:00 English  Type : Assist
you may use full path to create file or directory.

test.php
=========================
<?php
echo"starting if";
if (mkdir(dirname(__FILE__)."/test")){
echo" made directory";
}else{
echo"failed directory";
}
?>
========================
By: tacman7 Date: 13/09/2003 02:11:00 English  Type : Comment
I don't understand this line:

mkdir(dirname(__FILE__)."/test")

so, dirname is the directory I want to make the directory in?
and what is (__FILE__).

Sorry.
Thanks
By: tacman7 Date: 13/09/2003 02:13:00 English  Type : Comment
I am getting Failed directory echoed on my screen now that I put the quotes around the if clause.

<?php
if (mkdir("/test")){
echo" made directory";
}else{
echo"failed directory";
}
?>
By: duniyadnd Date: 13/09/2003 04:26:00 English  Type : Comment
dirname(__FILE__) should be equivalent to $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] which basically points to your server directory.

eg. /home/loginame/public_html

so with $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/mynewdir'; is equivalent to:

/home/loginname/public_html/mynewdir/

Make sure your root directory is chmod to 666 at least. It should be though if you keep updating your site.
By: tacman7 Date: 13/09/2003 11:23:00 English  Type : Comment
This is what worked:

<?php
echo"starting if";
if (mkdir("test",0755)){
echo" made directory";
}else{
echo"failed directory";
}
?>

Even though the second parameter is optional, on this server it's not. I finally read that you don't get errors till you create a logs directory then your errors will be in a scripts.log file in your logs directory.

The error was:
PHP Warning: Wrong parameter count for mkdir() in /root.php on line 3
By: duniyadnd Date: 13/09/2003 11:28:00 English  Type : Answer
eh.. that's weird that only with both parameter it works.. well.. whatever works.. :D
By: tacman7 Date: 13/09/2003 11:32:00 English  Type : Comment
Well I answered the question myself but I appreciate the efforts,
Thanks
By: duniyadnd Date: 13/09/2003 11:35:00 English  Type : Comment
Heh.. if it was an option, should have given it to yourself. :D Thanks anyway
By: saknarak Date: 13/09/2003 16:05:00 English  Type : Comment
__FILE__ is a specials variable referece to this file

in test.php
__FILE__ equal /path/to/test.php


for example

/path/to/a.php
/path/to/somewhere/b.php

a.php
<?
include("somewhere/b.php");
echo "a.php = ".__FILE__."\n";
?>


somewhere/b.php
<?
echo "b.php = ".__FILE__."\n";
?>


output
b.php = /path/to/somewhere/b.php
a.php = /path/to/a.php



and function dirname(), it get dirname without tailing slash
dirname("/path/to/a.php") == "/path/to";
so this function can reference path of current file


you may use realpath(".") but result may difference depend on file that include other files

Sak:)

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