using mkdir to make directory outside of current one.

here's the problem. i'm using mkdir to check and see if a folder exists and if not create it and if so add files to it.

here is the dilemma, up until now i had all of my files just sitting in the root directory ie: / and it would create the folder in /folder/created folder.

now i have moved all my function, config files to a /includes/config folder.

the problem i am having is that:

$newdir = "data/".substr($newfilename, 0, 2); <-- worked when i had all files in root directory

changed to this in order to create the files in my root directory:

$newdir = "../../data/".substr($newfilename, 0, 2); <--- doesn't work


any ideas how to correct this?

 

nvm figured it out.

thanks.

 

Don't you want to let us know how you did it?

 

just did a chdir() to the root directory right before the mkdir...
so it would switch directories to / and then create the folder in data/new_folder