Introduction
File Handling is an important topic in any web application. We often need to make a directory, make a file, open a file, read a file, close a file, delete a file, processing into the file for various tasks.
Now I will describe how to create a directory in PHP.
So, let's start with the topic of creation of a directory. The mkdir function is used for make a directory in PHP.
Syntax of mkdir (Make directory)
bool mkdir ( string $pathname [, int $mode =0777 [, bool $recursive = false]])
pathname: pathname is the directory path.
mode: Access permission for a directory, 0777 is the default mode. mode is ignored in Windows.
recursive: Allows us to creae nested directories.
The return value of the mkdir function is bool, so it will always return either TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>" method="post">
<div style="width:330px;top:120px; left:220px;position:relative; border:1px solid gray; margin-bottom:5px; padding:5px; padding-top:17px; ">
<div style="position:relative; float:left; padding-top:8px; left:5px; padding-bottom:15px; "><h3> Directory creatation programme:</h3></div>
<div style="position:relative; float:left; left:12px; padding-top:8px; ">Name of the folder:</div>
<div style="position:relative; float:left; left:45px; padding-top:8px;"><input type="text" name="folderName" size="15" id="fldr" /></div>
<div style="position:relative; float:left; padding-top:8px; left:12px; "></div>
<div style="clear:both; position:relative; margin-bottom:12px;"></div>
<input type="submit" name="MkDir" value="Ok" style="position:relative; left:160px; " />
<?php
if($_POST['MkDir'])
{
$str='D:\Developer\\';
$str1=$_POST['folderName'];
$str=$str . $str1; //string concatenation logic
if (!mkdir($str, 0777, true))
{ die('<br/><br/> Failed to create folders...');
}
else{ echo "<br/><br/>New folder is created succesfully!"; }
$str="";
}
?>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
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![ClickOnOkButton]()
![finalScreen]()
Summary
In this article we learned how to make a new folder/directory in PHP.