Title: Making directories for users? Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Making directories for users? * Resolved [ashton1993](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashton1993/) * (@ashton1993) * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-directories-for-users/) * Heya, my website is [here](http://www.pixelsgame.org), I’m trying to make it so that when a user registers on my site it’ll automatically create a directory for them ([http://pixelsgame.org/upload/USERNAME](http://pixelsgame.org/upload/USERNAME)) which they can later use for uploading files to use in their posts, I’m using this code just after the account activation: * ‘user_login); ?>’ * But the directory is not created upon activation and I receive this error: * ‘Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied in /hermes/bosweb/web096/ b966/ipg.pixelsgamenet/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/registration/ activate.php on line 14’ * I made sure that activate.php has permisions 0777 (everything turned on) but still get the same error, don’t suppose anybody could help, also I know it’s terribly thankless of me to ask but I’d be eternally grateful if you could also look at this [other unresolved issue](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-pages-from-navbar-buddypress?replies=1) I’m trying to tackle. Thanks a lot for looking! Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * [Harry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harmck/) * (@harmck) * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-directories-for-users/#post-2601617) * What’s on Line 14 of activate.php? * Thread Starter [ashton1993](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashton1993/) * (@ashton1993) * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-directories-for-users/#post-2601620) * Oh sorry, it’s: * `user_login); ?>` * Should have specified that was line 14 * [Harry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harmck/) * (@harmck) * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-directories-for-users/#post-2601624) * Ah sorry, should have guessed myself. * Would it be a case of that /upload/ is the absolute path rather than the relative path? * And you’re trying to create a folder outside your designated area on a shared server? * Could you look at something like **wp_upload_dir()**? * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_upload_dir](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_upload_dir) * Thread Starter [ashton1993](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashton1993/) * (@ashton1993) * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-directories-for-users/#post-2601639) * Heh, it was only when you posted that I realized I could change the upload directory rather than set up another FTP account to get decent looking links. Anyways I changed the code to: * ``` user_login); ?> ``` * Which doesn’t return an error _phew_, though neither does it create a directory for that user, I however came to the realization $user_info->user_login should only return a value when a user is logged in so I went on to write: * ``` 24 user_login]; 26 $filename = "/$upload_dir/{$dirname}/"; 27 28 if (file_exists($filename)) { 29 echo ""; } else { 30 mkdir($upload_dir . "" . $user_info->user_login); 31 } 32 ?> ``` * Then chuck it in the theme header but got this error * `Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: File exists in /hermes/bosweb/web096/b966/ ipg.pixelsgamenet/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/header.php on line 30` * Sorry if I’m just being silly. * Thread Starter [ashton1993](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashton1993/) * (@ashton1993) * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-directories-for-users/#post-2601690) * I’ve refined my code more though still having some dificulity, it should work but for some reason it doesn’t: * ``` user_login}/"; if (file_exists($filename)) { echo 'http://www.pixelsgame.org/upload/' . $user_info->user_login . ' supposedly already created'; } else { echo 'http://www.pixelsgame.org/upload/' . $current_user->user_login . ' supposedly just created'; mkdir("$filename"); } ?> ``` * It echoes “[http://www.pixelsgame.org/upload/ashton](http://www.pixelsgame.org/upload/ashton) supposedly just created” when I use it though doesn’t create the directory, any clues? * [Harry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harmck/) * (@harmck) * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-directories-for-users/#post-2601693) * Hi, * You can’t create a dir via a URL. Mkdir operates at a OS level to create the directory. * From your above errors, your path on your server should be something like * `/hermes/bosweb/web096/b966/ipg.pixelsgamenet/wp-content/upload/` * Thread Starter [ashton1993](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashton1993/) * (@ashton1993) * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-directories-for-users/#post-2601708) * Awesome! It’s working perfectly now! Well thanks for all the help 🙂 do you think it’d be useful for me to post the code somewhere it can be used again by others or would I just be clogging things up? * [Harry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harmck/) * (@harmck) * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-directories-for-users/#post-2601710) * I’d be interested in having a look out of curiosity, so if you pastebin the code, and link it here, at least if someone is ever searching for the same solution they have a starting point. * Thanks, Harry * Thread Starter [ashton1993](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashton1993/) * (@ashton1993) * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-directories-for-users/#post-2601931) * Sorry, just ended up a bit busy and forgot about this but basically I was using inline upload and had modified it so that when a user uploaded a file it would go to their own directory (I’m using buddypress for a social networking rig) except I discovered the plugin WP-Filebase which makes this obsolete >_< Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) The topic ‘Making directories for users?’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [folder](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/folder/) * [upload](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upload/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 9 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [ashton1993](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashton1993/) * Last activity: [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-directories-for-users/#post-2601931) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics