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Nowdeen
Nowdeen

Reputation: 1440

Error creating directory using mkdir function in Codeigniter

I'm trying to recursively create a directory using php's mkdir function in a Codeigniter installation. My code looks like this: 

mkdir('docs/client/bills/payd', 0777, true)

The docs directory already exists in my site root dir, the client directory is beeing created with 0755 permission, the bills directory is beeing created with permission 1341 (weird!) and the last directory, payd, is never created.
I tryed to change permission in the mkdir argument list to 0, 755, etc... and nothing has changed. I also tryed to set umask to 0, 0777... and nothing. 

umask(0777);
mkdir('docs/client/bills/payd', 0777, true)

Can anyone please say what am I doing wrong? The code above is called from a Codeigniter regular controller.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2022

Answers (3)

JoLoCo
JoLoCo

Reputation: 1375

I also had this weird "1341" permissions error with PHP mkdir, nothing to do with CodeIgniter, it's a pure PHP issue!

After much experimentation, the only way I could get it to work was to include a slash at the end of the path, and set the recursive flag to 'true'. (Even though the PHP docs don't show a final slash, and I was only creating a single directory.)

I.e.

$existing_path = '/these/directories/already/exist/';
mkdir( $existing_path . 'new-directory/', 0755, true);

Upvotes: 0

Tpojka
Tpojka

Reputation: 7111

Try with

if ( ! is_dir( FCPATH.'docs/client/bills/payd' )//FCPATH is absolute path to the project directory
{
    mkdir( FCPATH.'docs/client/bills/payd', 0777, true );//although 0755 is just fine and recomended for uploading and reading
}

Upvotes: 1

Lorenzo
Lorenzo

Reputation: 574

Use this to specify it the working directory, it might be confused as to where the directory is located.

mkdir( getcwd().'docs/client/bills/payd', 0777, true);

getcwd is the working directory for your codeigniter. You can search in the PHP guide the getcwd() function to make it clearer.

This should work.

EDIT

To make it clearer, that would return the following:

C:\xampp\htdocs\YOUR_ROOT_DIRECTORY\docs\client\bills\payd

EDIT AGAIN

Although after reading again, this would only create payd and assume that docs\client\bills is already created. You could create client and bills using mkdir or using the file explorer. But there are other PHP ways and I can help if needed.

Goodluck meyt

Upvotes: 0

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