| Re: mkdir no such file or directory [message #181429 is a reply to message #181410] |
Wed, 15 May 2013 23:20   |
Bhushan N.N
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Thomas,
Thanks for your feedback.
I just put that uploads/time format as an example. In the real application I will be using
uploads/<username>/time format
Please learn how to post properly? Don't really know what you mean. Thanks a lot anyway for your help. Appreciate it.
Thank you
Bhushan
On Wednesday, 15 May 2013 10:37:15 UTC-6, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> Bhushan N.N wrote:
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>> ie, if my website is called example, the structure will be
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>> example
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>> index.php
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>> upload.php
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>> search.php
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>> uploads
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>> 12209214
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>> somefile.txt
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>> 31231203
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>> otherfile.txt
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>> about.php
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>> contact.php
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> Please learn how to post properly on Usenet. Avoid Google Groups in favor
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> of a locally installed newsreader application if possible.
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> The problem here is that you are falsely assuming that “/” refers to the
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> document root. Instead, it refers to the *filesystem* root, where you/the
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> Web server SHOULD NOT have write access. As “uploads” is a directory on the
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> same level as upload.php, it is probably easiest for you just to omit the
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> leading “/”.
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> However, it would be safest to refer to the document root explicitly, like
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> $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/uploads/' . $value
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> (As you can see, it does not make sense to concatenate '/uploads' . '/' when
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> you can just write '/uploads/'.)
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> It also does not make a lot of sense to create a directory for every second
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> of upload since epoch, using time(). If you need to group uploads by date
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> for quick access, I suggest you use year/month/date instead. That said, you
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> can rather easily filter an array of file information, so unless there is a
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> chance that on different times people would upload files with the *same*
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> name where they do *not* want to overwrite the old version, you do not need
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> that directory structure.
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> However, in a multi-user application another piece is missing in any case:
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> You need a way to differentiate between the files of users or one user could
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> overwrite the file of another. Using time() _cannot_ prevent that from
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> happening, because there is the possibility of concurrent access.
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> PointedEars
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> --
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> Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on
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> a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web,
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> when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another
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> computer, another word processor, or another network. -- Tim Berners-Lee
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