How do ftp programs change dir access?

[aewarnick]

My server is apparently less than version 5 php because when I call ftp_chmod() it is an unrecognized function.

I saw a workaround:

$chmod_cmd= "CHMOD 0777 ".$curdir."/".$newFolderName;
ftp_site($connection, $chmod_cmd);

But it does nothing. My server is an appache server.

What do you suggest?

[Kudose]

User contributed comment found on the PHP mnual site at [man]ftp_chmod[/man]

if ftp_chmod doesn't work, jusdt try this :

$ftp_ip="ip_of_my_serv_ftp";
$ftp_login="my_login";
$ftp_pass="my_pass";
$ftp_file="/www/motd.txt";

$conn_id=ftp_connect($ftp_ip);
$login_result=@ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_login, $ftp_pass);

<!-- Here's the hack -->
$chmod_cmd="CHMOD 0666 ".$ftp_file;
$chmod=ftp_site($conn_id, $chmod_cmd);

ftp_quit($conn_id);

[devinemke]

is $curdir."/".$newFolderName a valid path? use [man]file_exists[/man] to check. also you should capture the output from [man]ftp_site[/man] to see if it is returning TRUE or FALSE (which you may already know depending on your error reporting settings).

[aewarnick]

Here was my main trouble:

$curdir = dirname(stripslashes($_SERVER["PATH_TRANSLATED"]));

if(!is_dir($thumbdir))
{
	//$curdir starts as:  /home/server/public_html/Fold
	$ind= strpos($curdir, "/", 0);
	$ind= strpos($curdir, "/", $ind+1);
	$ind= strpos($curdir, "/", $ind+1);
	$ftpDir= substr($curdir, $ind+1, strlen($curdir)-$ind+1);
	//$curdir ends as:  public_html/Fold
	FtpMkdir($ftpDir, $thumbdir);
}

function FtpMkdir($path, $newFolderName)
{

I had to strip off home and server for the path to work right for ftp. Is that normal? Is there a way around it?