Creating a directory and storing with text box on form

[big-dog1965]

Is there a simple way to use a text box in a form to check if a directory exists and if it doesn’t create it? If it does then store file through a upload field on same form. If it doesn’t create it and store files to it.

I’m using a mysql DB for storing data from form.

part of the Process.php file

$query = "INSERT into `".$db_table."` (Venue_Name,Gallery_Image_1,Gallery_Image_2,Gallery_Image_3,Gallery_Image_4,Gallery_Image_5,Gallery_Image_6,Gallery_Image_7,Gallery_Image_8,Gallery_Image_9,Gallery_Image_10) VALUES ('" . $_POST['Venue_Name'] . "','" . $_POST['Gallery_Image_1'] . "','" . $_POST['Gallery_Image_2'] . "','" . $_POST['Gallery_Image_3'] . "','" . $_POST['Gallery_Image_4'] . "','" . $_POST['Gallery_Image_5'] . "','" . $_POST['Gallery_Image_6'] . "','" . $_POST['Gallery_Image_7'] . "','" . $_POST['Gallery_Image_8'] . "','" . $_POST['Gallery_Image_9'] . "','" . $_POST['Gallery_Image_10'] . "')";
mysql_query($query);

I have another form that the Venue_Name is created from by user.

 

[Cosizzle]

Please dont type with bold font it hurts my eyes. You use the term "simple" to loosely. Simple for me? It would take a few hours to do, but doable sure. Simple for a php guru sure why not.

 

Some functions you might find useful.

 

is_dir() http://ca2.php.net/is_dir

basename() http://ca2.php.net/manual/en/function.basename.php

fopen() http://www.php.net/function.fopen

[redarrow]

hahahaha my eyes lol.

 

could not re zest sorry.

[big-dog1965]

Well where is the guru when I need him/her

I’ve found a function/scripts but have no idea how to incorporate it and stuff. this one looks like maybe would do it if I knew coding. Instead of folder name time() use the database field Venue_Name from another table to create the directory under gallery/gallery_images which is a sub directory from where this form is located at. Which might be coming from BASE_DIR part of this? My thought is in the form/process of the gallery form the text field would be where the person enters the venue_name on submit it would process the data to mysql and this here code would make the dir if not exist and place the uploaded images in it, if it did exist then upload to the dir. this is echoing stuff but unless a problem accurd the no echo of this mkdir stuff

function handleError() {
    trigger_error('MY ERROR');

    /** usage sample
        @handleError();
        echo $php_errormsg;
    */
}

// detect slash/backslash nomenclature dirname
$path = dirname( __FILE__ );
$slash = '/'; strpos( $path, $slash ) ? '' : $slash = '\\';
define( 'BASE_DIR', $path . $slash );

$folder  = time();               // folder name
$dirPath = BASE_DIR . $folder;   // folder path

$rs = @mkdir( $dirPath, '0777' );
@handleError();
if( $rs )
{

    // print success information
    echo 'was done!';
    echo '<br>folder: <a href="' . $folder . '">' . $folder . '</a>';
    echo '<br>dirPath: ' . $dirPath;

}else{
    
    // print error information
    echo 'an error was occurred. Attempting create folder';
    echo '<br>dirPath: ' . $dirPath;
    echo '<br>php_errormsg: ' . $php_errormsg;

}