Re: Permissions on uploaded image don't allow for over writing

On Sunday 30 January 2005 23:04, Dave wrote: > I'm not sure what you mean when you say "use PHP's FTP". I'm using > $HTTP_POST_FILES because the files are retrieved through a web form. What is meant by that is that after the file is uploaded, during your processing of the upload file, instead of using something like move_uploaded_file() you use php's ftp_*() functions to FTP upload that file back to the server, in the process that file will be owned by whatever ftp user account you used to perform the ftp operations. > As for the user, I would assume that it's whatever default for any > viewer coming to a web page. I have people log in using a user name and > password retrieved from a MySQL database, but I don't see how the > browser or the server would know about that. > The thing is I'm really a newbie at this Unix server and file > permission thing. I was really hoping that there was some parameter I > could set to have the uploaded file set to full access permissions, Have a look at umask() and chmod(). -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ New Year Resolution: Ignore top posted posts