can you CHMOD a directory on the fly?

lli2k5

Basically,

my problem is that I use copy() to download images on a script.

However, on a server, the images directory and parent directory of the images must be made 777 for images to be able to be downloaded into the directory.

However, if I leave it as 777, everyone can go in there and download all the images.

Is there anyway to chmod the directories to 777 when the script runs and chmod them back to 773 when the script ends?

Also, anyone has another suggestion for this image download?

Salkcin

Take a look at the chmod() function

lli2k5

I believe that the CHMOD function is only for files, not a directory

bastien

yes, you can...you may also want to consider moving the dir off the web root so that users cannot access the files even when the mode is 0777. You can us PHP to access the files and allow users to download copies without ever getting to the folder

lli2k5

oh okay

NogDog

Note that if your PHP script is being run by the webserver, it is 99.9% likely it's being run as another user, not your personal login account. Since only the owner of a directory (or root) can chmod it, your PHP script will not be able to do so unless you have a PHP script actually create the directory in the first place (so that it is owned by the webserver user).