mkdir in php

[djzalzer]

So I want to make a directory (I'm making a sort of blog type program) bsaed on the date, for instance, if a post is made, the data of that post is stored in a text file in the directory

day/month/year

(I don't want to use mysql.)

Anyways, I thought this would do it.

$date = date("d/m/y");

mkdir($date, 0700);

It returns

Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: No such file or directory in C:\Program Files\EasyPHP 2.0b1\www\index.php on line 7
floppy jalopy

Any php experts around?

 

[darknesscloud]

Well the minute you use the backwards slash or the forwards slash the webserver will think its a directory so it will be like www.website.com/02/25/08/. it would be simpler do to it like this  www.website.com/02-25-08/ achieved like this
$date = date("d-m-y"); if that does'nt work blame my brain since its 5:00 A.M. and PM me with the page and ill have a look into it.

 

[___]

My first guess also would be the slashes.  You're asking it to make a directory "/08/" in "/02/25" which of course it can't find so it's spitting it out.  If you want a three level structure you need to make each directory individually; otherwise remove the slashes

 

[djzalzer]

Okay, thanks guys.  :D Works!

Although now I think about it, I probably won't use this method

 

[alexanderpas]

this should be the solution to the OP problem,

I guess you might want to change your mkdir to use the recursive option...

http://php.net/mkdir

mkdir($date, 0700, TRUE);

secondly,you might want to change your date format to the ISO 8601 format (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601)
this'll make the enties easily sortable on date, because it'll put the year first, then the month (which is a part of a year), and then the day (which is part of a month)

examples:

2007-12-31
2008-06-14
2008-06-15
2008-07-03
2009-04-12

note that they're sorted on date