note 37296 deleted from function.mkdir by mazzanet
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| Subject: | note 37296 deleted from function.mkdir by mazzanet | ||
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Note Submitter: Han Van den Hoof
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If you're on a shared *nix server, a directory created through mkdir() will not be assigned to
you, but to the user that your host's server or php process is running under, usually
'nobody', 'apache' or 'httpd'.
In practice, this means that you can create directories, even add files to them, but you can't
delete the directory or its contents nor change permissions.
It is therefore advised to create directories through PHP's FTP API. Here's a function I
wrote:
<?php
// create directory through FTP connection
function FtpMkdir($path, $newDir) {
$server='ftp.yourserver.com'; // ftp server
$connection = ftp_connect($server); // connection
// login to ftp server
$user = "me";
$pass = "password";
$result = ftp_login($connection, $user, $pass);
// check if connection was made
if ((!$connection) || (!$result)) {
return false;
exit();
} else {
ftp_chdir($connection, $path); // go to destination dir
if(ftp_mkdir($connection,$newDir)) { // create directory
return $newDir;
} else {
return false;
}
ftp_close($conn_id); // close connection
}
}
?>
Hope this comes in handy for someone.