Permissions Error When Uploading to Dynamic Directory

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So I've got some simple code that is supposed to upload an image. I've never done an upload before, so I just went pretty much verbatim to this:

 

http://www.tizag.com/phpT/fileupload.php

 

I am creating my directories dynamically. The admin creates a new project, and it sets up sub directories to create a new page. I create it like this:

function createDirectory($username)
{
$thisdir = getcwd();
$sourceCSS = "codes.css"; //var to copy over css
$destCSS = $thisdir ."/$username/codes.css"; //dest of css
$sourceIndex = "index.php"; //var to copy over index.php
$destIndex = $thisdir ."/$username/index.php"; //dest of index.php
if(mkdir($thisdir ."/$username", 0777) && mkdir($thisdir ."/$username/mnstrtv", 0777) && mkdir($thisdir ."/$username/images", 0777) && mkdir($thisdir ."/$username/fies", 0777) && copy($sourceCSS, $destCSS) && copy($sourceIndex, $destIndex)){
	return true;
}
else{
	return false;
}
}

 

My upload.php looks like this:

<?php
$username = $_POST['username'];
$uploaddir = "/$username";
$uploadfile = $uploaddir . basename($_FILES['userfile']['name']);

move_uploaded_file($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'], $uploadfile);
?> 

 

And my form looks like this:

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="mnstrtv/upload.php" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="10485760" />
<input type="file" name="userfile" />
<br>
<input type="submit" value="Upload File" />
</form>

 

And finally, here are the errors I'm receiving:

Warning: move_uploaded_file(/Blue hills.jpg) [function.move-uploaded-file]: failed to open stream...

Warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to move '/tmp/phpUNasCO' to '/Blue hills.jpg' in...

 

And it says its bombing on line 9, which is my move_uploaded_file() call. I did a search and it said that I may not have read/write permissions (chmod 777 error? If so, I'm not sure how to change my settings...) but I thought in my mkdir() having "0777" set the permissions correctly.

 

I can provide any more details as necessary. Any help would be appreciated.