On Wednesday 18 October 2006 20:55, Al wrote: > Matthews, Chris wrote: > > Good Morning: > > > > I am looking to create a thumbnail from an uploaded image, and then save > > it to a directory. > > > > I don't have any problem with the image functions, and can successfully > > create the thumbnail and push it to the browser or, as is currently set > > up, store the data in a database. > > > > What I want to do instead, however, is take that dynamically created > > thumbnail and write it to a folder on the server. > > > > If I simply write the file, however, it appears I need to have a folder > > chmod'd world read/writable for the process to work. My network guys do > > not want this. > > > > I tried the FTP functions, which work great for copying a file that > > already exists somewhere into another folder, but I can't seem to get it > > to recognize the buffer as a valid source file location... > > > > Is there a way to use a php FTP function to FTP the file out of the > > buffer to a directory on the server, or some other way to write a file to > > a folder without making that folder 0777? > > > > Chris Matthews > > eGovernment Information Officer > > Washoe County, Nevada > > 775.328.3719 > > http://www.washoecounty.us > > > > Director, West Region > > National Association of Government Webmasters > > http://www.nagw.org > > Have your program create the folder and assign it 754 or 755, don't create > it via Apache. Thus, the owner will be the famous "nobody". The 754 means > nobody [your program] has full rights; but the world only has reading > rights. You'll see all your standard folders created by the system are > 755, which is safe also.
and how do apache create directories again? -- --- Børge Kennel Arivene http://www.arivene.net --- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
