It's perfectly acceptable to have a function call itself, and one of the
first examples in books is a recursive function for factorial numbers,
and I've used them on more than one occasion to give directory listings.
For the life of me though, I can't understand why it would be giving you
the error you're getting from within the function it is meant to be
calling.
Ash
www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
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I am debugging someone else¹s code, and this is what they have :
1055 function mkdir_recursive($pathname, $mode)
1056 {
1057 is_dir(dirname($pathname)) ||
mkdir_recursive(dirname($pathname), $mode);
1058 return is_dir($pathname) || @mkdir($pathname, $mode);
1059 }
The part that bothers me is that mkdir_recursive calls itself from within
itself.
I am not an expert on this particular type of thing, and maybe that is
allowed, but it seems wrong to me, and this error is being generated:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function mkdir_recursive() in xxxxx.php on
line 1057
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