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I want to upload files with PHP and i use move_uplload_files to copy them to the destination folder I want, everything works fine with this :

if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['uploadfile']['tmp_name'], './uploades/'))
die("success");
else
die("error");

But when I try this

$rand =  chr(rand(97, 122)). chr(rand(97, 122)). chr(rand(97, 122));
if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['uploadfile']['tmp_name'], './uploades/'.$rand))
die("success");
else
die("error");

I will get error, and it looks like move_uploaded_files can not create folders. How can I do this ?

Basically I am looking for a way to do it like file_put_contents() that creates the path if not exist.

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Use mkdir().

If you need to make multiple folders, such as by passing a/b/c, set the third argument to TRUE.

You can test if it is already there, and add if not like so....

$path = 'abc';

if ( ! is_dir($path)) {
    mkdir($path);
}
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@mkdir() would suppress the error, or the best way would be file_exists
So first i should see if it exists and then creat it if its no there right ?
@Ragez: I think there should be something to do it like file_put_contents() does it automatically creates if it not exists.
@Omeid Herat There is, and it's above :P
@Omeid: I would like so but I didn't ran in that function so far
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Use something like this:

$folder = "uploads"; 
if(!is_dir($folder)) mkdir($folder);

is_dir() checks if the folder is there.

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This works for me:

$path = "upload/";
$name = $_FILES["file"]["name"];
// Remove dangerous characters from filename.
$name = str_replace('..', '', $name);
$name = str_replace('/', '', $name);
$name = str_replace('\\', '', $name);

if (($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/jpeg")
|| ($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/jpg")
&& ($_FILES["file"]["size"] < 2000000)) {
      if ($_FILES["file"]["error"] > 0) {
        echo "Error " . $_FILES["file"]["error"] . "<br>";
      } else {
        if(file_exists($path.$name)){
            echo "$path$name already exists. ";
        } else {                
            @mkdir($path, 0666, true);  // Create non-executable upload folder(s) if needed.
            move_uploaded_file($_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"], $path.$name);
            echo "Stored in: $path$name";
        }
    }
} else {
    echo "Invalid file. Allowed are JPG smaller than 2 MB.";
}
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Create the directory first using mkdir() 

  $rand =  chr(rand(97, 122)). chr(rand(97, 122)). chr(rand(97, 122));
    mkdir('./uploades/'.$rand);
    if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['uploadfile']['tmp_name'], './uploades/'.$rand))
    die("success");
    else
    die("error");
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if($_FILES['file_up']['type']=='image/jpeg' || $_FILES['file_up']['type']=='image/png' || $_FILES['file_up']['type']=='image/gif')
{
    move_uploaded_file($_FILES['file_up']['tmp_name'],'uploads/'.time().$_FILES['file_up']['name']);
}
else
{
    echo "Upload only image file..";
}
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