create folder in laravel

Question

I have problem let user create folder in laravel 4 through ajax request > route > controller@method.
I did test ajax success request to the url call right method.
When I use mkdir or File::mkdir($path); (is this method exist?) , I will get the response Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (Internal Server Error) and fail to create new folder.. how to solve it ?

route.php

Route::post('admin/article/addimagegallery', 'AdminDashboardController@addImagegallery');

AdminDashboardController

public function addImagegallery()
{
    if (Request::ajax())
    {
        …
        $galleryId = 1; // for test
        $path = public_path().'/images/article/imagegallery/'.$galleryId;
        File::mkdir($path);
    }
}

js

$.ajax({
    url: 'addimagegallery',
    type: 'POST',
    data: {addimagegallery: 'addimagegallery'},
})
.done(function(response) {
    console.log(response);
});

Answer 1

There's multiple arguments you can use.

You can create a directory using defaults.

$result = File::makeDirectory('/path/to/directory');

This will return true if directory was able to be created in the /path/to directory. The file mode of the created directory is 0777.

You can specify the mode.

$result = File::makeDirectory('/path/to/directory', 0775);

This will return true if directory was able to be created in the /path/to directory. The file mode of the created directory will be 0775.

You can also create the directories recursively.

$result = File::makeDirectory('/path/to/directory', 0775, true);

Answer 2

No, actually it's

File::makeDirectory($path);

Also, you may try this:

$path = public_path().'/images/article/imagegallery/' . $galleryId;
File::makeDirectory($path, $mode = 0777, true, true);

Update: Actually it does work, mkdir is being used behind the scene. This is the source:

/**
 * Create a directory.
 *
 * @param  string  $path
 * @param  int     $mode
 * @param  bool    $recursive
 * @param  bool    $force
 * @return bool
 */
public function makeDirectory($path, $mode = 0777, $recursive = false, $force = false)
{
    if ($force)
    {
        return @mkdir($path, $mode, $recursive);
    }
    else
    {
        return mkdir($path, $mode, $recursive);
    }
}

For deleting:

public function deleteDirectory($directory, $preserve = false);

Check the source at following path (in your local installation):

root/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php

Answer 3

Thanks to The Alpha. Your answer helped me, here is a laravel 5 way to do it for those who use the later version :

Storage::disk('local')->makeDirectory('path/to');

This will create a directory in storage/app/path/to

Retrieve the directory you just created with :

storage_path('app/path/to')