Re: Re: Creating thumbnails using Image Functions, then saving to folders

Børge Holen wrote:

On Wednesday 18 October 2006 20:55, Al wrote:

Matthews, Chris wrote:

Good Morning: I am looking to create a thumbnail from an uploaded image, and then save it to a directory. I don't have any problem with the image functions, and can successfully create the thumbnail and push it to the browser or, as is currently set up, store the data in a database. What I want to do instead, however, is take that dynamically created thumbnail and write it to a folder on the server. If I simply write the file, however, it appears I need to have a folder chmod'd world read/writable for the process to work. My network guys do not want this. I tried the FTP functions, which work great for copying a file that already exists somewhere into another folder, but I can't seem to get it to recognize the buffer as a valid source file location... Is there a way to use a php FTP function to FTP the file out of the buffer to a directory on the server, or some other way to write a file to a folder without making that folder 0777? Chris Matthews eGovernment Information Officer Washoe County, Nevada 775.328.3719 http://www.washoecounty.us Director, West Region National Association of Government Webmasters http://www.nagw.org

Have your program create the folder and assign it 754 or 755, don't create it via Apache. Thus, the owner will be the famous "nobody". The 754 means nobody [your program] has full rights; but the world only has reading rights. You'll see all your standard folders created by the system are 755, which is safe also.

and how do apache create directories again? With tomahawks and bows and arrows.

Some folks make dumb mistakes occasionally especially when in a hurry. However, the approach of having the script create the folders with 755 or 754 is correct. Is it not?