Question

I got an array containing path names and file names

['css/demo/main.css', 'home.css', 'admin/main.css','account']

I want to create those files and folders if they are not existed yet. Overwrite them if they are already existed.

Answer 1

For each of this paths you’ll have to specific whether it is a file or a directory. Or you could make your script assume, that the path is pointing to a file when the basename (the last part of the path) contains a dot.

To create a directory recursively is simple:

mkdir(dirname($path), 0755, true); // $path is a file
mkdir($path, 0755, true);          // $path is a directory

0755 is the file permission expression, you can read about it here: http://ch.php.net/manual/en/function.chmod.php