note 60825 added to function.mkdir

For those wandering about the $recursive flag of mkdir in php5, this function will do what you want (à la java) in php 4: <?php /** * Create a new directory, and the whole path. * * If the parent directory does not exists, we will create it, * etc. * * @param string the directory to create * @param int the mode to apply on the directory * @return bool return true on success, false else */ function mkdirs($dir, $mode = FS_RIGHTS_D) { $stack = array(basename($dir)); $path = null; while ( ($d = dirname($dir) ) ) { if ( !is_dir($d) ) { $stack[] = basename($d); $dir = $d; } else { $path = $d; break; } } if ( ( $path = realpath($path) ) === false ) return false; $created = array(); for ( $n = count($stack) - 1; $n >= 0; $n-- ) { $s = $path . '/'. $stack[$n]; if ( !mkdir($s, $mode) ) { for ( $m = count($created) - 1; $m >= 0; $m-- ) rmdir($created[$m]); return false; } $created[] = $s; $path = $s; } return true; } ?> The main idea here is to use a stack to store the invalid dirname (using basename/dirname), and then pop each item on the stack to create directory from a valid path (here: $path = realpath($path). If we fails creating one directory, we must remove them in the reverse order of creation (stackes :)). This works on Windows XP, and it should work on Linux (actually, I did not tested it). Note that this code is a part of one of my classes (named FileSystem), and that you should use your own basename/realpath/dirname/mkdir/rmdir function instead of php one (even if you use them behind). This will allow you to separate the item of a FileSystem from what is it really (FTP? Local ? Telnet? Teletubbies?) ---- Server IP: 217.174.203.10Probable Submitter: 212.194.97.50 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mkdir.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+60825 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+60825&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+60825&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+60825&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+60825&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+60825&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: already in docs -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+60825&report=yes&reason=already+in+docs Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+60825&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+60825&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php