Total noob in PHP need help with creating new folders

Total noob in PHP need help with creating new folders

I want to create a new page for every new “username”

Mydomain.com/user1

Mydomain.com/user2

I also put in the username on the page but that is ok but what I do not know is how do create new pages automatically.

Creating 1000 folders will take some time

 

If you have your users stored on a mysql database, you could use a for loop to parse al the data on the mysql table and create a new folder with each user. For example:

<?php

mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass);
mysql_select_db($db);

$query_users = "SELECT * FROM users";
$result_users = mysql_query($query_users);
$num_result_users = mysql_num_rows($result_users);

 for ($i_users=0; $i_users <$num_result_users; $i_users_id++)  {
    $row_users = mysql_fetch_array($result_users);   
    mkdir($row_users['user'], 0755);
  }
sleep(1);
}
?>

PHP:

This example code will parse all the entries of the mysql users table and create a folder with the name of the user field and 0755 permissions.

 

Thanks a bunch.

Is there a way i can change the pages inside the folders as well?

I am trying figure out if i should use pages, subdomains or folders

 

Hmm, have you not thought of using mod_rewrite to point all the folders to a main handling script?

/user/[id] --> /user.php?id=[id]

This allows you to only edit one file, to do everything...

Dan

 

You mean just have one file and change the username on each page with PHP? yes thats what i will do.

 

Why do you have 2 curly brackets and what is the sleep() for?

 

I guess he want it to stop or pause but as i said i am a noob

 

I think the 2 braces is a typo.
sleep() is to pause the execution of the script for 1 sec.

 

Sorry, I wasn't clear. I know what the sleep does, but why was it used?

 

If it was inside foreach, most probably to execute the script slowly. :|
Lets wait for dannet to respond though.

 

Sorry was my error, it should be:

 for ($i_users=0; $i_users <$num_result_users; $i_users_id++)  {
    $row_users = mysql_fetch_array($result_users);   
    mkdir($row_users['user'], 0755);
    sleep(1);
  }

PHP:

The sleep is to wait after every directory creation and not to charge the server creating the 1000 folders at same time, its optional of course.

 

Try this:

<?php

$R1 = mysql_query('SELECT `username` FROM `users`') or die(mysql_error());
if (mysql_num_rows($R1) == 0) {
     die('Nothing to do.');
}
while ($r = mysql_fetch_array($R1)) {
     $uname = stripslashes($r['username']);
     $uname = urlencode($uname);
     mkdir($uname, 0755);
}
die('All done.');
?>

PHP:

That will clean the username up to be safe for a directory name.

 

Yes, there is an extra bracket, it was a typing error, and the sleep should be in the loop.

 

lol, it's all good.

 

So what is the correct code now?