laravel mkdir

mkdir is a server command so it will create the folder based on the path of the server. In your case /images will be created at the root of your server, not the root of your project.

When uploading files with Laravel, it will automatically create the correct directory for you. So in most cases, this is not needed.

If you want to create a directory in your project you should use this instead

mkdir(base_path('images')); // /www/project/images

mkdir(public_path('images')); // /www/project/public/images

This will create the images directory in the root or the public directory of your project.

See more on usage here

https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mkdir.php

And look and see if it's making the folder where you expect if not recurse as needed.

ok I just tried:

$jsongFile = time() . '_file.json';

        $path = public_path('imagez/john');
        if ( ! File::exists($path) ) { File::makeDirectory($path,0777,true); }
        
        file_put_contents($path.$jsongFile, $course->toJson());
        return Response::download(public_path('/upload/json/'.$jsongFile));

I'm getting:

The file "/Users/me/Documents/laravel/btw22mongo/public/upload/json/1673562124_file.json" does not exist

argh please help, now I'm getting: "The file "/Users/me/Documents/laravel/btw22mongo/public/upload/json/1673565607_file.json" does not exist",

$jsonFile = time() . '_file.json';

        $path = 'imagez';
        if ( ! File::exists(public_path($path)) ) {
            mkdir($path,0777,true);
            file_put_contents(public_path($jsonFile), $course->toJson());
        }

a folder imagez has been created and a file 1673565607_file.json has also been created but the file is not in that folder?!