php create new dir with 777 permission. How?

Question

In my code

$path = 'images/product/'.$pid;
if( ! file_exists($path)) {
    mkdir($path, 0777);
}
...
...

but when I type

ls -l

in terminal

drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4.0K 2011-12-10 19:28 1/

This is the permission that I get, but is not I want.

I want to allow web user to upload the project based on the product ID (directory) that created during runtime.

How can I do so?

Do you really need 777? *Really*? It is far better to apply ownership by users and groups to allow other users/groups on the box to write to that directory. If you're using 777 so Apache can write to the directory then there's no need, it is already owned by `www-data` and anyone uploading a file via PHP/Apache will have write permissions already. — Tak, Dec 10 '11 at 13:41

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 06 '12 at 10:23

4

For creating directories with 777 permissions,or any permissions

$path = 'images/product/'.$pid;
if( ! file_exists($path)) {
    $mask=umask(0);
    mkdir($path, 0777);
    umask($mask);
}

...

answered Jan 06 '12 at 10:23

rjv

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 11 '11 at 03:50

This is because by default the Apache umask is set to 0022 by default.

Since umask is to revoke permission. Example

default 0777 rwx.rwx.rwx 
umask   0022 ---.-w-.-w-
Final   0755 rwx.r-x.r-x

There are 2 ways to solve this,

1. Edit /etc/apache2/envvars
   add in **umask** *<permission to be revoke>*
   restart apache
2. add in umask(0000); before the mkdir('mydir', 0777);

php create new dir with 777 permission. How?

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