PHP5 permissions

[zorgi]

Hi guys

I have a bit of a problem. Have application that allows user to upload images. Images are organized into directories created dynamically. I always thought that mkdir() function creates directories with 777 by the default. I checked documentation and that is what it says there: http://hr.php.net/function.mkdir. However all my directories created using mkdir() function have permissions 0755. Even when I force permissions to 777 like

mkdir("/path/to/my/dir", 0700);

I still get directories 0755.

Now that is not so much of the problem but I am not allowed to touch this files. I can not delete them or change permissions using ftp or file manager provided through cpanel, I contacted my service provider and they told me its PHP5 issue. We changed php to PHP4 and bingo. I was allowed to change permissions and delete files. The only problem now is in need php to be PHP5. Is this a bug or ? Anyone came across this issue before and what was your workaround?

[Dormilich]

@zorgi
these statements are preclusive. 700 for permission would be quite troublesome.

note: as of the manual, the standard permission is 777.

[zorgi]

@Dormilich
Sorry I just copy pasted that from manual i did use actual 0777

This is the actual code:

mkdir($dir, 0777);
mkdir($dir."/squares", 0777);
mkdir($dir."/full", 0777);
mkdir($dir."/thumbs", 0777);
 

However I always get 0755 no matter what I do. And anyway why can I not modify it using ftp?

[TheServant]

I have never had a problem like this, but I do know that some programs put limits on what can be changed. Do you have FULL access? You're not using something which someone could have blocked you access of changing chmod to >755?

Can you change files to 777?

[zorgi]

@TheServant
I only have access via ftp or cpanel. Once i create directory using mkdir i can not change it or delete it until php is set back to PHP4.

[zorgi]

Ok got it

Problem was not in mkdir() (eve though I dont know why created directories are 755) but in file uploaded to the directory. I used move_uploaded_file() function and this is the function that sets permissions very low so when deleting/renaming/changing permissions for directories with this files within them I was denied. Solution is in using chmod() strait after move_uploaded_file().

Thanks you guys. Help is always appreciated.