Find out if a directory exists in php

Question

I want to know whether or not a directory exists.

If not, I would like to create the directory.

My code is below:

$da = getdate();
$dat = $da["year"]."-".$da["mon"]."-".$da["mday"];
$m = md5($url)."xml";
if(is_dir($dat))
{
    chdir($dat);
    $fh = fopen($m, 'w');
    fwrite($fh, $xml); 
    fclose($fh);
    echo "yes";
}
else
{
    mkdir($dat,0777,true); 
    chdir($dat);   
    $fh = fopen($m, 'w');   
    fwrite($fh, $xml);    
    fclose($fh); 
    echo "not";
}

Any particular reason you didn't post the full question the first time? — allnightgrocery, May 25 '10 at 12:41
somebody cant understand what i am saying? that y i am putting code? do u have any problem for putting code.... — zahir hussain, May 25 '10 at 12:47
Of course not. I'm just curious as to why your question started out so vague. I suspect some people would have answered differently had you posted your code first. — allnightgrocery, May 25 '10 at 12:51

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered May 25 '10 at 12:34

7

Use is_dir, which checks whether the path exists and is a directory then mkdir.

function mkdir_if_not_there($path) {
  if (!is_dir($path)) {
    // Watch out for potential race conditions here
    mkdir($path);
  }
}

answered May 25 '10 at 12:34

Dominic Rodger

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i want to check the folder s exist or not... please see my coding... i will just update... – zahir hussain May 25 '10 at 12:38
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Err... what? That's what my function does! – Dominic Rodger May 25 '10 at 12:43

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 25 '10 at 12:36

0

Use is_dir:

$pathname = "/path/to/dir";
if(is_dir($pathname)) {
   // do something
}

answered May 25 '10 at 12:36

Joe Mastey

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Find out if a directory exists in php

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