Changing file permissions

[dustin]

I am hoping that someone here will be able to help me out with a small problem I am having. I have a intranet application that allows my client to upload a set of files to a central storage server, it also then adds file information to a mysql database.
The problem that I am having is this, when user x uploads a file, that file gets created on the server as having owner apache, group apache, and permissions of 755.
I need a way for the script to be able to change the group and the create permissions mode. I have played with the chmod and chgrp php commands but I cannot get them to work.
I need these files created like this
user apache, group Usergroup permissions of 775

I hope this makes sense to someone... and thanks ahead of time.

[bernouli]

make directory named upload
$ mkdir upload

change the group to apache
$ chgrp apache upload

change mode to775
$ chmod 775 upload

set automatic the files saved to 775
$ chmod g+s upload

[dustin]

i found that my problems were as such:

i had this information
$mode = '0775';
chmod($PathtoFile, $mode);

however that did not work
I found that i needed to use octdec() first like this

chmod($PathtoFile, octdec($mode));

the problem that i was that apache didnt belong to the group i wanted to set. after i added apache to that group the program worked...

thanks for the help