How to create a Sub-directory in parent directory using php?

Question

How to create folder in php.I tried this code.It's not creating folder in parent directory.

$dir1="http://www.consul.com/hrd/b";
 mkdir($dir1, 0755);

Answer 1

Use dirname(__FILE__) to get root directory. To get root directory

For PHP >= 5.3.0 try

__DIR__

For PHP < 5.3.0 try

dirname(__FILE__)

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$root = dirname(__FILE__);
$dir1 = $root . "/your_folder";
mkdir($dir1, 0755);

EDIT : Also can create directory by checking it consistency if required.

$root = dirname(__FILE__);
$dir1 = $root . "/your_folder";
if(!is_dir($dir1)){
   mkdir($dir1, 0755);
}

Reference:

• mkdir()

Answer 2

mkdir() uses the local directory path, not the server directory path. See this link for more info.

You'd want to run the following code:

$dir = __DIR__ . "hrd/b"; // This gets the server's root directory and creates "hrd/b" relative to it.
mkdir($dir, 0755);

Note that for PHP versions < 5.3.0, you'll need to use dirname(__FILE__) instead of __DIR__ .

Answer 3

try this

$dir1="/home/UserName/public_html/DirName";
 mkdir($dir1, 0755);

Answer 4

You've set $dir1 to a URL instead of providing a path. Also, if any of the directories don't exist, you may need to use the recursive paramater, as follows:

<?php
$dir1 = "/hrd/b";
if (!mkdir($dir1, 0755, true)) {
    die('Failed to create folders...');
}

For more info about this function, you may wish to read http://php.net/mkdir .

I tried this code on a Windows Box using PHP5.4.3, included in WampServer 2.2 (uses Apache 2.2.22) and it worked perfectly.

When I tried the code on a Linux Server running a very early version of PHP5, I had to tweak the path and this is the code that finally worked there:

<?php
$dir1 = dirname(__FILE__)."/hrd/b";

if (!mkdir($dir1, 0755, true)) {
    die('Failed to create folders...');
}

Note: dirname() and its parameter, a magic constant, together provide the full path of the currently executing PHP script and that info helps in turn to provide the full path info for $dir1.

Answer 5

You can use this code to create a directory in the parent dir.

if (!file_exists("../dir_name/")) { mkdir("../dir_name/", 0777, true); }