PHP - Need Help With Mkdir Permissions

I am trying to create a folder using amfphp using this method:

<?php
function createProject($dir)
{
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM projects WHERE proj_path = '$dir'");
$num = mysql_num_rows($query);
if ($num > 0)
{
return "folder already exists";
}
else
{
$root  = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
$theDir = $root . $this->dataFolder . "/" . $dir;
//return $theDir; -> "/home/content/c/s/8/cs8xo/html/xxxxxxx/project_data/testfolder2"
return mkdir($theDir,0755);
}
}
?>


I've commented out what $theDir returns when I pass it a $dir. $this->dataFolder == "/xxxxxxx/project_data"

When I return the mkdir(), I get this error:
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(Object)#0
  message = "faultCode:AMFPHP_RUNTIME_ERROR faultString:'mkdir(): No such file or directory' faultDetail:'/home/content/c/s/8/cs8xo/html/xxxxxxx/amfphp/services/clientlogin2/Projects.php on line 147'"
  name = "Error"
  rootCause = (null)

Line 147 is referring to the mkdir() line.

Can anyone spot anything obvious that I could be missing?

I am running php 5.3.2 on Win Server 2008 R2 (IIS 7).

When I execute the mkdir() function and pass it a string (i.e., the path) longer than 256 characters, it throws an error indicating "result too large". My question is whether this is because the mkdir() function cannot handle a string larger than 256 char or if it is a Windows issue on max characters allowed (path length).

Any feedback or recommendations will be appreciated.

I have problem creating multiple sub-directories inside a single directory using mkdir:

mkdir("files/".$lname,0777);
mkdir("files/".$lname."/CV",0777);
The above command works fine and creates the directory under $last name as files/$lname/CV.   
But I am unable to create further sub-directories inside $lname.
For eg:   
mkdir("files/".$lname."/Cover", 0777); (This does not create the directory Cover)

this is how my code snippet looks like
if($result)
{
    mkdir("files/".$lname,0777);
    mkdir("files/".$lname."/CV",0777);
    mkdir("files/".$lname."/Cover", 0777);
   mkdir("files/".$lname."/LOR", 0777);
}
   
   

Hi, I wonder whether someone may be able to help me please.

I'm fairly new to PHP so please bear with me.

I'm trying to put together a script which bascially creates a hierarchical tree of folders upon a new account being created by a user.

I would like to take the 'username' that the user registers with to use as the name for the first folder, then, create a folder at the second level called 'images' and then finally, a folder within that called 'thumbs'.

From the research that I've done, I believe that I need to use the 'mkdir' command, but I can't find a very straight forward tutorial.

I just wondered whether someone could perhaps please help me out with this, so that I at least have a good solid starting point.

Hey,

I'm currently making a little script which I often get a string like = "images/folder/something/maybeanotherone/file.ext"

so I'm interresting to know how could I create every directory in the correct order and the numbers of sub-directory isn't fix, so if anybody can give me an hint, I would appreciate =D

Btw, tell me if I'm you don't understand what I mean, English isn't my primary language.

Hi, I want to create a folder for every auto incrementing row so I used this

$id=mysql_insert_id();

mkdir("../Setting/time/".$id);

I am getting an error Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: No such file or directory in C:\xampp\htdocs\Setting\time\index.php

I have used the mkdir function in this similar method before there was no problem. For some reason it is not working now. If I just try it on a blank page example the following method seems to work could some one point to me what I might be doing wrong?


$tid=1;
mkdir("../Setting/time/".$tid);     

Im in the process of setting up a social media site , Just switched from basic hosting to Dedicated Server
Everything was working till i switched .

I have a basic join forum and email activation , On the register.php file it tell script to make a directory mkdir into member/folder like this below, But it will  make the folder for the id of that user but will not let them upload any images?. At first it wouldnt even make a folder but i found out it was a permissions issue with my server i fixed it , im guessing the upload is also a permission's issue ? But the script automaticly make the members/"$id" folder and i dont know how to set permission for auto create folder that if i even have to ? so confused.

(BEGGGGINGG !! FORRRRR HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!
Im running a dedicated server with godaddy, On centOs w/ Plesk Panel 9.3.0
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$id = mysql_insert_id();

// Create directory(folder) to hold each user's files(pics, MP3s, etc.)
mkdir("members/$id", 0755);

Please help.  I am simply trying to create a directory if it doesn't already exist.  I am working from one site (www.mysite.com/folder1/folder2/folder3/here).  I want to have this PHP script make a directory on another one of my sites (www.mysite2.com/images)


$dirname = "../../mysite2.com/images"; <--this is the root directory (www.mysite2.com/images)

$filename = "/$sitest/$userid/"; <-- this is the folder we want to create if it doesn't already exist (www.mysite2.com/images/us/27)

$fulldirname = "$dirname$filename"; <--this should be the total path (mysite2.com/images/us/27)

     if (file_exists($fulldirname)) {
         echo "The directory {$fulldirname} exists";
     } else {
       mkdir($fulldirname, 0777);
         echo "The directory {$fulldirname} was successfully created.";
     }

Hope someone can help me!
I have an upload script that stores users files, it creates a dir using the users name which will store their uploads!
The problem is because I am on a shared host with safe mode ON i get an error when trying to upload to that directory via a form, the error says something like
SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 500 is not allowed to access /proc/uptime owned by uid 0 in ......

If I create a dir manually(FTP) it works fine! But I cannot obviously create a dir for each new user as the registration is automatic, so at the moment I have 1 common dir for all users to upload to, but this will eventually cause too much congestion and slow things down!

Any ideas! Thanks!!

Hi,

How do you create a folder in the main dir (public_html) when you are a few folders deep?

My code...

mkdir("../../../../../filestore/images/$page_id/", 0644);

I seem to get an error each time failing to create the folder. Is there away to go direct to the public html folder?

Thanks for any help.

Hi

I have a script

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mkdir("myitems/images", 0777);

chmod("myitems/images", 0777);

if (!copy('downloads.zip', 'myitems/images/downloads.zip')) {
    echo "failed";
}
when I run it, the folder is created and when checking folder permissions, it shows 777

but it fails on copying the file.

if I manually create the folder "myitems/images/" and set it to 777, then when I run the script, the file is copied

for some reason when I manually create the folder it works, but when PHP creates the folder, it fails on something

any ideas? racking my brain trying to figure out why

Hey guys i have a script that i made with multiple permissions..

i need to add in the pages restitutions for diffrent levels..


so i got the level


$query = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE `username`='$username_from_cookie'"; 

$numresults=mysql_query($query);
$numrows=mysql_num_rows($numresults); 

// get results
$result = mysql_query($query) or die("Couldn't execute query");

// now you can display the results returned
while ($row10= mysql_fetch_array($result)) {

$permissions= $row10["permissions"];

echo '$permissions';

}


Now to restick im ok with like to but more then that i get confused..

this shows navigation on levels of permissions..


if ($row10['permissions'] == 2) {
print "<a href=\"U.php\"><img src=\"./Icons/Users.png\" title=\"Prof\" /></a>";
}
else {
print "<img src=\"./Icons/Users_o.png\"/>";
}


2 levels


 if ($row10['permissions'] == 5) {
print "<a href=\"Prof_1.php\"><img src=\"./Icons/sec.png\" title=\"Enseignant(e)\"/></a>";
} elseif ($row10['permissions'] == 2) {
print "<a href=\"Prof_1.php\"><img src=\"./Icons/sec.png\" title=\"Enseignant(e)\"/></a>";
} else {
print "<img src=\"./Icons/sec_o.png\" title=\"Enseignant(e)\"/>";
}


ok so instead of have 10 lines of codes can i

$row10['permissions'] == 5&2&3   ???

and can i do if not permissions ==5 redirect to loggin..
thanks

Dear Coder Bro,

I made a simple php script which copy some files to the server directory through a php loop. It means it will copy some 1000+ files via loop & store into a directory.
The script worked fine before some 2 - 3days, Suddenly i saw that script is executing but no files copied to the server's directory. I checked the directory permission & it was 755. I changed the permission to  777 and run the script once again and it worked success...
But the problem is the directory permission automatically changes to the old 755. I don't know how it happen. I need to change the directory permission to 777 when i begin to run the script.


My Question is.

1.) Why did the directory permission automatically changes to 755. ?
2.) How to solve this problem to avoid the every time directory permission changing behavior ?


I Hope expert coder guys will respond soon...!

So here is a concept of a permission system that I haven't really seen any where else. Now usually conventional permissions are usually stored in columns whilst the record specifies a bit which is then used to determine if the record has access to that permission. Below is my concept of how permissions should be done, I'm looking for someone who can help me create the system in a way which would be easily implementable by other applications such as MyBB. In my case I have multiple game servers, and most of my players have accounts created on my forums which are powered by MyBB, I'm currently in the process of integrating their MyBB accounts across all my related game servers, but one thing I've noticed is that I have multiple permission systems created for all of my servers so right now I'm also trying to integrate all of them into one system so please try and understand that I designed this system in a way that could be used by multiple applications.    Any constructive criticism is accepted.  
 
So the idea is that you have 1 table, I'll just list it here to make it easier to follow:

- uniperms_nodes

 
Now the uniperms_nodes table will contain the following columns:

- key (Int, Not Null, Primary Key, Auto Increment)
- type (Enum('USER', 'GROUP'), Not Null)
- id (Int, Not Null)
- permission (Varchar(255), Not Null)
- description (Text)

Now here is how it works,
a record is inserted into the uniperms_nodes table containing the necessary information. Here is an example:

INSERT INTO `uniperms_nodes` (`type`, `id`, `permission`, `description`) 
VALUES ('GROUP', '1', 'my.test.node', 'A simple permission');

 
With this information inserted, I can simply use the following query in order to get all of the permissions related to the GROUP with the ID of 1.

SELECT `permission` FROM `uniperms_nodes`
WHERE type='GROUP' AND id=1;

With this array of permission nodes I can simply just check if the array has 'my.test.node', if the array contains 'my.test.node' then that means that the group I queried has access to that permission.   Now the reason I have the types USER and GROUP is because maybe you would like to give permissions to individual users, but maybe you wouldn't necessarily want to create a new group.           I'm currently looking for someone to help me create a lovely interface for this system, so that it's easier for the user to modify a group/user's permissions. If you're interested feel free to message me here on the forums or via email. kieron.wiltshire@outlook.com
Edited by KieronWiltshire, 19 November 2014 - 11:15 AM.

Hi

I've got a file upload script i've written and I have set the folder to 777 to allow uploads

With the permission set to 777 does this open me up to potential uploads from 3rd parties? (ie: viruses etc)?

So I thought what I would do is

1: Set folder to 777 to allow uploads
2: Upload file
3: Set folder to 755 to disable uploads

Would this be the best method to do it?

Or is that a waste of time and am I safe just leaving it as 777

Thanks