Error Creating Directory...

[judgetules]

Warning: mkdir(/gallery/15th_December_2004): No such file or directory in /home/username/public_html/addgallery.php on line 25

Warning: mkdir(/gallery/15th_December_2004/thumbs/): No such file or directory in /home/username/public_html/addgallery.php on line 25

This is the error I get when trying to create a directory on my server.

Why isn't it letting me create the directory? When I tried it on my home server it worked fine.

Here is the PHP code for adding the gallery.

Addgallery.php

<?php if (isset($_POST['cid'])){ 
    
include_once 'includes/header.inc.php'; ?>

<div id="main">

<?php // a gallery has been added 

//add gallery

$cid = $_POST['cid'];
$gallerydate = $_POST['gallerydate'];
$gallerydate = ereg_replace(" ","_",$gallerydate);

if ($cid == '') {
    exit('<p>Please Choose a club.</p>');
    }

$sql = "INSERT INTO gallery SET 
        gallerydate = '$gallerydate',
        clubid='$cid'";

 
if (@mysql_query($sql)) {
        echo '<h3>Gallery Added.</h3>'; mkdir ('/gallery/' . $gallerydate, 0700); mkdir ('/gallery/' . $gallerydate . '/thumbs/', 0700); chdir('./');
      } else {
        echo '<p>Error adding new gallery: ' .
        mysql_error() . '</p>';
    }
?>

<p>Gallery Added</p>
<p><a href="gallery.php">See All Galleries</a></p>
<p><a href="addgallery.php">Add Another Gallery</a></p>
<p><a href="index.php">Return Home</a></p>

</div>

<?php include_once 'includes/footer.inc.php'; } else { 
    
    require 'includes/secure.inc.php'; 
    include_once 'includes/header.inc.php';
    //show add gallery form ?>

<div id="main">

<h3>Add Gallery</h3>

<table>
    <form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>" method="post">
        <tr><th>Club</th><td>
        
        <select name="cid" size="1">
        <option selected value="">Choose a Club</option>
        <?php $ok = @mysql_query("SELECT id, name FROM club ORDER BY name");
            if (!$ok)
            {
            exit ('<p>Error performing query: ' . mysql_error() . '</p>');
            }
            while ($row2 = mysql_fetch_array($ok))
            {
            $id = $row2['id'];
            $name = $row2['name'];

            echo "<option value=\"$id\">$name</option>"; }?>

        </select></td></tr>

        <tr>

        <th>Date:</th><td><input type="text" name="gallerydate" size="30" /></td></tr>
        
        <tr><td></td><td>
        <input type="submit" value="Add Gallery" class="submit" /></td></tr>
        </form>
</table>

</div>

<?php include_once 'includes/footer.inc.php'; } ;?>

The error claims to be in this line

echo '<h3>Gallery Added.</h3>'; mkdir ('/gallery/' . $gallerydate, 0700); mkdir ('/gallery/' . $gallerydate . '/thumbs/', 0700); chdir('./');

Any help would be much appreciated.

[drzoid]

You are trying to create the directory below a directory called "gallery" in the root directory. I guess "gallery" is a sub-directory of the current one, so the following should be working.

if (@mysql_query($sql))
{ 
    echo '<h3>Gallery Added.</h3>';
    mkdir('gallery/' . $gallerydate, 0700);
    mkdir('gallery/' . $gallerydate . '/thumbs/', 0700);
    chdir('./'); // why that?
} else echo '<p>Error adding new gallery: ' . mysql_error() . '</p>'; 

[judgetules]

I read somewhere that you need to add chdir('./'); after mkdir to enable the dir to be read.

BTW - I've already tried it with gallery/ as opposed to /gallery/ and it still didn't work!

[swdev]

I don't know if this will help, but you can try prefixing the directory name with the DOCUMENT_ROOT key from the $_SERVER variable

e.g.

  
  $new_dir = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/gallery/' . $gallerydate;
  echo 'Creating directory ' . $new_dir . '<br />';
  if (true === mkdir ($new_dir, 0700))
  {
    echo 'Successfully created ' . $new_dir . '<br />';
  }
  else
  {
    echo 'Failed to create' . $new_dir . '<br />';
  } 

[judgetules]

Nope - that didn't work either, I wonder if it has anything to do with access rights on the server?

[drzoid]

Does the gallery directory exist at all?

[judgetules]

Hmm, well, it seems it i was correct about the directory rights.

/gallery/ only allowed the owner to read/write/execute whereas I was executing the command from outside the owner area so it wouldn't let me.

It is fixed now, however, i have another problem.

<?php 

if (isset($_GET['gallery'])) { //show specified gallery

$gallery = $_GET['gallery']; 
$gallery = ereg_replace("_"," ",$gallery);

$page_title = '- Gallery for ' . $gallery;

include_once 'includes/header.inc.php'; 

function isPicture($file) 
    {
    $file = strtoupper($file);
    $pos = (strpos($file,".JPG")||strpos($file,".GIF")||strpos($file,".PNG"));
    if($pos>0) return true ;
     else return false;
    }

?>

<div id="main">

<h3>Gallery for <?=$gallery?> (<a href="galleries.php">Back to Galleries</a>)</h3>

<?php //Request the gallery

$gallery = ereg_replace(" ","_",$gallery);

$galleryDir = dir('/gallery/' . $gallery); 

    if (isset($_GET['photo'])){ //show specified photo

        $photo=$_GET['photo'];

        echo "<img src=\"/gallery/$gallery/$photo\" alt=\"\" /><br />";

        while ($afile = $galleryDir->read()) 
        {
            if(isPicture($afile)) 
            {
            echo "<a href=\"viewgallery.php?gallery=$gallery&photo=$afile\"><img src=\"/gallery/$gallery/thumbs/$afile\" alt=\"\" class=\"gallery\" /></a>";
            }
        } 
    
    } else { //Request all galleries.

        while ($afile = $galleryDir->read()) 
        {
            if(isPicture($afile)) 
            {
            echo "<a href=\"viewgallery.php?gallery=$gallery&photo=$afile\"><img src=\"/gallery/$gallery/thumbs/$afile\" alt=\"\" class=\"gallery\" /></a>";
            }
        }
    }
} else { Header("Location: galleries.php"); } ?>

</div>

<?php include_once 'includes/footer.inc.php';?>

This is my code for viewing the gallery.

This is the error I am getting.

Warning: dir(/gallery/15th_December_2004): failed to open dir: No such file or directory in /home/ptulip/public_html/viewgallery.php on line 30

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/ptulip/public_html/viewgallery.php on line 48

These are the corresponding lines.

Line 30

$galleryDir = dir('/gallery/' . $gallery);

while ($afile = $galleryDir->read())

Any ideas?