Image Permissions Problem

latemodern

Hi,

I have a made a PHP photo gallery. Photos are uploaded using:

//Check for a file
//Add the record to the database

//return the upload_id from the database
$upload_id = mysql_insert_id();

//Move the file over
move_uploaded_file($_FILES[$filename]['tmp_name'], "uploads/$upload_id")

This saves the file in the uploads folder as number without an extension. This is fine because my gallery adds the extension when the photos are retrieved.

However, I am trying to download all the photos using ftp but it fails:

Response: 550 344: Permission denied
Error: Download failed

The folder's permissions are set to 777 but the individual files are 101 and everytime I try to change them nothing happens.

I could download each individual file seperately from the site but that would take ages

Any suggestions?

etully

Ask root to log into the machine and chmod 755
More specifically, cd /path/to/your/images
chmod 755

latemodern

Thanks for your help

I'm not familiar with using the command line thingy

Is there a way to do it with PHP code or Filezilla?

Cheers

etully

Since Apache/PHP created the file, they might have permission to change the permissions on the files - impossible to say without experimenting. You'd need to write a script that can find all the filenames in a directory and perform the chmod command on each of them.
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.chmod.php
If that works, you might want to modify your upload script to automatically chmod the files when they arrive.