Create 2nd folder and put in 1st folder

Question

So I'm guessing you read the title and thought that's easy mkdir() and copy() but what I'm trying to do is not as simple and I couldn't think of a better title so let me explain further...

what I want to do is create a folder then create a 2nd, 3rd, 4th and put each folder made inside the last so I would end up with a folder path like: 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > 5

I currently have this snippet which creates 5 folders:

$x=1;
while($x<=5) {
   mkdir($x);
 $x++;
} 

but I'm stuck on the moving each to its new home the previous folder.

Note: I know I could just right click desktop create 5 new folders and do it that way but I would like to know how it could be done with php :)

Answer 1

If your PHP version is 5.0.0 or above, you may use the recursive parameter of mkdir:

$path = "folder 1/folder 2/folder 3/folder 4/folder 5/";
mkdir($path, 0777, true);

UPDATE: You may use a for loop to avoid writing the word "folder" five times:

$path = "";
for($i = 1; $i <= 5; $i++) $path .= "folder $i/";
mkdir($path, 0777, true);

Answer 2

I haven't checkd this works but the idea is to build up your path as you go:

$path = '/somepath';
$x = 1;
while($x<=5) {
  $path .= $x . '/'
  mkdir($path);
  $x++
}