<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >mkdir</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Filesystem functions" HREF="ref.filesystem.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="lstat" HREF="function.lstat.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="move_uploaded_file" HREF="function.move-uploaded-file.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.lstat.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.move-uploaded-file.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.mkdir" ></A >mkdir</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN26602" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P >mkdir -- Makes directory</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN26605" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >int <B CLASS="methodname" >mkdir</B > ( string pathname [, int mode])<BR ></BR ><P > Attempts to create the directory specified by pathname. </P ><P > Note that you probably want to specify the mode as an octal number, which means it should have a leading zero. The mode is also modified by the current umask, which you can change using <A HREF="function.umask.html" ><B CLASS="function" >umask()</B ></A >. </P ><P > <DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > Mode is ignored on Windows, and became optional in PHP 4.2.0. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV > </P ><P > The mode is 0777 by default, which means the widest possible access. For more information on modes, read the details on the <A HREF="function.chmod.html" ><B CLASS="function" >chmod()</B ></A > page. <DIV CLASS="informalexample" ><A NAME="AEN26624" ></A ><P ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >mkdir ("/path/to/my/dir", 0700);</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P ></P ></DIV > </P ><P > Returns <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >TRUE</B ></TT > on success or <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT > on failure. </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.rmdir.html" ><B CLASS="function" >rmdir()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.lstat.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.move-uploaded-file.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >lstat</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.filesystem.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >move_uploaded_file</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >