Posted by bish on 02/15/06 13:02

I do voluntary web work for a small local charity. The new
chairman wants to have each of his caseworkers upload their latest
work file into their own directory (called after the caseworker's
$username passed from the log-in script) so he can examine them
remotely.
The idea is also that, if the volunteer is new, a new directory
called after the new caseworker's $username be created and their
file put into it.
I've tried all kinds of variations of the following but get error
messages.

<?
if (!is_dir($username))
{
// make the directory;
mkdir($username, 0777) or die ("Could not make directory");
// then copy the file into the directory;
}
else
{
// just copy the file into the directory;
}
?>

Warning: mkdir(): No such file or directory in
/home/earlpa11/public_html/funds/forma_upload_handle1.php on line
5
Could not make directory

In addition, a simple file -
<?
mkdir("new_directory", 0777);
?>
works perfectly well but the permissions are 0755. I can change
this with my ftp, but that's not what's wanted.
phpinfo() on my server tells me safe_mode is off, locally and
globally.

Can anyone help, please?

I hope I've put the problem clearly.

Thank you in anticipation.

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