[Resolved] Creating Dirs on server with wrong permissions

[Terminator]

I have the following problem.
The upload script I have creates 2 directories on the server

/directoryX
/directoryX/thumbs

X = the directory number, after every 1000 files uploaded, the directory goes 1 dir up (so directory1 becomes directory2).

The problem is that /directoryX is created with the wrong rights, so that I don't have permission to create the thumbs directory.

I use below script.

// $var_username = the name the script gets from loggin in

$userpath = strtolower("uploads/$var_username");
$counter = '1';

if (!is_dir($userpath)) { // Set / create the userdirectory
    $oldumask = umask(000);
    mkdir("$userpath", 0777);
    umask($oldumask);
}

$path = strtolower("uploads/$var_username/directory$totaldirs");
	$paththumb = strtolower("uploads/$var_username/directory$totaldirs/thumbs");

if (!is_dir($path)) { 
    $oldumask = umask(000);
    mkdir($path, 0777);
    mkdir($paththumb, 0777);
    umask($oldumask);
    $resultdir = "Directory '<b>$path</b>' created, directory   changed";
}
else {
    $resultdir = "Current directory is '<b>$path</b>'";
}

$totalfiles = filecount($path);

if ($totalfiles >= '1000') {
    $newdircounter = $totaldirs + 1;
    $path = strtolower("uploads/$var_username/directory$newdircounter");
    $resultdir = "Directory '<b>$path</b>' created, directory changed";
    mkdir($path);
}

Anybody a clue why sometimes the directories aren't created with the right permissions ??

[planetsim]

You might notice that when you create a new directory using this code:

mkdir($dir, 0777);

The created folder actually has permissions of 0755, instead of the specified
0777. Why is this you ask? Because of umask(): http://www.php.net/umask

The default value of umask, at least on my setup, is 18. Which is 22 octal, or
0022. This means that when you use mkdir() to CHMOD the created folder to 0777,
PHP takes 0777 and substracts the current value of umask, in our case 0022, so
the result is 0755 - which is not what you wanted, probably.

The "fix" for this is simple, include this line:

$old_umask = umask(0);

Right before creating a folder with mkdir() to have the actual value you put be
used as the CHMOD. If you would like to return umask to its original value when
you're done, use this:

umask($old_umask);

Hopefully should help you.

[Terminator]

Thanks for the help, I noticed I forgot 1 mkdir to umask 😃
Thanks!!