[RESOLVED] changing permissions for many files at once

[timbr8ks]

I'm trying to change the permissions for about four hundred files in a directory called "photos" without doing it once at a time. I'm doing this:

<?php
$d = opendir('/photos') or die($php_errormsg);
while (false !== ($f = readdir($d))) {
	chmod ("$f", 0666);
}
closedir($d);
?>

However, I keep getting an error that says:

opendir(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/photos) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/httpd/vhosts/********.com/httpdocs:/tmp)

I've tried adding this:

ini_set('open_basedir','/home/httpd/vhosts/********.com/httpdocs:/photos');

... with and without the : before /photos, but that didn't work.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance.

[mrhappiness]

/photos is at the very same level /home is and hat is above the place you are allowed to write

i'm sure there are no files in /photos but maybe in

$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/photos'

?
echo it to see the full path

[timbr8ks]

Well, as usual, I resolved my issue just after posting this. Here's what I did:

$directory = dirname($PHP_SELF)."/";
$path = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].$directory;
$dir = $path;
if (is_dir($dir)) {
	if ($dh = opendir($dir)) {
		while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
			chmod("$file", 0666);
		}
	}
}