note 44655 added to function.mkdir

From: Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 06:06:33 +0000
Subject: note 44655 added to function.mkdir
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The mkdir_p function submitted by saint at corenova.com is nice and simple, but errors when trying to create several directories in a tree, eg: /foo/bar/baz/1 /foo/bar/baz/2 /foo/bar/baz/3 Adding a check before the mkdir function fixes this. // Amended Function: function mkdir_p($target) { if (is_dir($target)||empty($target)) return 1; // best case check first if (file_exists($target) && !is_dir($target)) return 0; if (mkdir_p(substr($target,0,strrpos($target,'/')))) if (!file_exists($target)) return mkdir($target); // crawl back up & create dir tree return 0; } Thanks for the function Saint, made my life easier! ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mkdir.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+44655 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+44655&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+44655&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php

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