Php: creating directory

Question

I am trying to create folder and sub folder on website. Code is pretty simple. Not sure why does not work.

<?php

$domain = "officeactionuspto.com";

mkdir(($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"].'/crc/website_templates/client_files/'.$domain), 0777, true);
mkdir(($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"].'/crc/website_templates/client_files/'.$domain.'/images'), 0777, true);


$folder= $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"].'/crc/website_templates/client_files/'.$domain.'/images';


if(is_dir($folder))
  {
  echo ("$folder is a directory");
  }
else
  {
  echo ("$folder is not a directory");
  }

?>

Answer 1

You don't need to use the entire, absolute filename. You just need to use the path relative to the folder where the script being executed is located.

Although I don't know your file structure, lets pretend that the PHP script is in the crc folder: Your command would be: mkdir(('/website_templates/client_files/'.$domain), 0777, true);

EDIT: With the recursive parameter, you can create the images subfolder in the same command.

Answer 2

You don't have to use absolute path to create a directory.

You can just do it with following code:

mkdir('images', 0777, true);


$folder= 'images';

if(is_dir($folder)){
  echo ("$folder is a directory");
}else{
  echo ("$folder is not a directory");
}

you can also get the absolute path after created, if you desired:

$full_path = realpath('images');

PS: I'm supposing you are executing this code on /index.php, if was on another different structure, you need to write the relative path for it.

EDIT: I tested and eliminate a parentheses on mkdir and works.