[SOLVED] Creating a Directory

[The14thGOD]

I'm trying to create a directory if the user needs to create a new category for something. I looked here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mkdir.php and I still can't seem to get it to work. I've got this right now:

<?php if($newcategory) {
			mkdir("..\images\$newcategory",0777);
			$uploaddir = "../images/$newcategory/";?>

It just created the directory "..\images$newcategory" in the same folder as the script. I'm guessing that the \ in front of the $ is just making it ignore the variable so it's not parsing it. Anyone know how to make the directory so it goes back one folder?

The server is using PHP 4.4.4 if that helps and running on Linux.

 

Thanks for any help.

 

Justin

[jonsjava]

<?php if($newcategory) {
			mkdir("..\\images\\$newcategory",0777);
			$uploaddir = "../images/$newcategory/";?>

[The14thGOD]

ah, it got the full name however it still put it in the same directory as the script. it didn't go back out and into the images folder.

[DarkWater]

Linux uses /, not \.

[jonsjava]

<?php if($newcategory) {
			mkdir("../images/$newcategory",0777);
			$uploaddir = "../images/$newcategory/";?>

does that do it?

[The14thGOD]

yep that worked. i don't know why though. i tried it earlier and it gave me an error regarding the function. i might have just mistyped something.

 

ty all

 

justin