[SOLVED] Create directory tree

[trekerboy]

Hello,

 

I am trying to create a function that creates a directory tree given a path. The function needs to determine the parent directory that currently exists (such as /public_html/images/) in the given path and then create the subdirectories below it (such as /public_html/images/bears/beats/battle_star_galactica/).

 

function ftp_newdir($dir)
{
	require ''.$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/includes/config.php';

	$dirs_desc = array();
	$this_dir = $dir;
	$preamble = "/home/danstewa";

	if(!$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server))
	{
		$errors[] = "Could not connect to ".$ftp_server;
	}

	if(!$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user, $ftp_password))
	{
		$errors[] = "Could not connection to ".$ftp_server." with the supplied user name and password.";
	}

	while(!file_exists($preamble.$this_dir))
	{
		$dirs_desc[] = $this_dir;
		$this_dir = dirname($this_dir);
	}

	$dirs_asc = array_reverse($dirs_desc);

	ftp_site($conn_id, 'CHMOD 0777 '.dirname($dirs_asc[0]));

	for($i = 0; $dirs_asc; $i++)
	{
		mkdir($dirs_asc[$i]);
		ftp_site($conn_id, 'CHMOD 0777 '.$dirs_asc[$i]);
	}
}

 

The trouble is with the following snippet of code:

 

while(!file_exists($preamble.$this_dir))
	{
		$dirs_desc[] = $this_dir;
		$this_dir = dirname($this_dir);
	}

 

My goal with this snippet was to populate an array with a list of sub-dirs that needed to be created, but apparently it's an infinite loop.

 

NOTE: I'm on a shared server, so I can't use mkdir since it would require that I use chmod to change perms before directory creation; chmod isn't permitted on the shared server that I am on. That's why I'm using FTP chmod'ing.

 

Any help is appreciated!

 

- Jason

[trekerboy]

Bump... anyone?

[trekerboy]

SOLVED. Used the following code to create directory tree using php ftp functions because chmod function was restricted:

 

function ftp_newdir($dir)
{
	require ''.$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/includes/config.php';

	$dir_not_found = TRUE;
	$dirs_desc = array();
	$this_dir = $dir;
	$preamble = "/home/danstewa";

	if(!$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server))
	{
		$errors[] = "Could not connect to ".$ftp_server;
	}

	if(!$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user, $ftp_password))
	{
		$errors[] = "Could not connection to ".$ftp_server." with the supplied user name and password.";
	}

	while($dir_not_found)
	{
		if(!file_exists($preamble.$this_dir))
		{
			$dirs_desc[] = $this_dir;
			$this_dir = dirname($this_dir);
		}
		else
		{
			$dirs_desc[] = $this_dir;
			$dir_not_found = FALSE;
		}
	}

	$dirs_asc = array_reverse($dirs_desc);

	for($i = 0; count($dirs_asc) > $i; $i++)
	{
		if(!file_exists($preamble.$dirs_asc[$i]))
		{
			ftp_mkdir($conn_id, $dirs_asc[$i]);
			ftp_site($conn_id, 'CHMOD 0777 '.$dirs_asc[$i]);
		}
	}

	for($i = 0; count($dirs_asc) > $i; $i++)
	{
		if(file_exists($preamble.$dirs_asc[$i]))
		{
			ftp_site($conn_id, 'CHMOD 0755 '.$dirs_asc[$i]);
		}
	}
}