Creating Directories and chmod

Hi, i am coding in php on a unix server and in my script i want to create a directory. I am doing it successfully with these commands:

$oldumask = umask(0);
mkdir("$newdirec", 0777);
umask($oldumask);

The directory gets created but the CHMOD of the directory is not 777, i think its like 522
(read write, read, read)

Also used these commands for certain files:

chmod("$newdirec/master.css",0777);
chmod("$newdirec/configfile.inc",0777);

Same thing is happening, its 522 not 777

Why could this be happening????

Thanks for any help

try it with 777 and not 0777 see if this helps

ill try it but the 0 indicate that im using octal form for the CHMOD.

That did not work, i removed the 0 and get errors everywhere.

Help please

see if this works its kinda nasty but may work

exec("chmod 777 $newdirec");

see if that works..

is the folder

what version php are you running?

version 4.2