Using VPS server when I create directory using mkdir() it returns true but folder when I check using cpanel is blank,

Question

Using VPS server when I create directory using mkdir() it returns true but folder when I check using cpanel is blank, I dont know why I even used scandir() and I noticed that those folders which I created is showing in an array in scandir(), why is that happening, why those folders are not showing ? This is my code:

/creating directory/

                if (!file_exists('public_html/members/1213121')) {
                    mkdir('public_html/members/1213121', 0777, true);
                    echo "file getting created";
                }
                else{
                    echo "file not getting created.";
                }

                /**this is the code I put to scan the members folder and it retuns array and showing the folder named 1213121 but in actual cpanel that directory is not there **/

                $dir = "public_html/members/";

                // Sort in ascending order - this is default
                $a = scandir($dir);

                // Sort in descending order
                $b = scandir($dir,1);

                print_r($b);

since I did the testing with other folder names also so it returns in html as below:: file getting created Array ( [0] => 1213121 [1] => 12131 [2] => 1213 [3] => .. [4] => . )

Also I did the testing with permissions as 0755, 0700 but none is working.

Answer 1

if your server folder permission is ok then this code is work for you. this first script for deleting the '1213121' folder from your server. script 1:

delete_files('/public_html/members/1213121/');

/* 
 * php delete function that deals with directories recursively
 */
function delete_files($target) {
    if(is_dir($target)){
        $files = glob( $target . '*', GLOB_MARK ); //GLOB_MARK adds a slash to directories returned

        foreach( $files as $file ){
            delete_files( $file );      
        }

        rmdir( $target );
    } elseif(is_file($target)) {
        unlink( $target );  
    }
}
?>

replace your script with this script 2:

$dir = 'public_html/members/1213121';

if (!file_exists($dir) && !is_dir($dir)) { //check dir is not exist

    if (mkdir($dir, 0777, true)) { //check folder is created
        echo "Folder created"; //display success message
    } else {
        echo "folder not created."; //if the dir is not created then show error message
    }
}

/**this is the code I put to scan the members folder and it retuns array and showing the folder named 1213121 but in actual cpanel that directory is not there **/

$dir = "public_html/members/";

// Sort in ascending order - this is default
$a = scandir($dir);

// Sort in descending order
$b = scandir($dir, 1);

print_r($b);

Note: before replacing 2nd script you must remove e first script.