Yeah,
My chown reference was to chowning the folder that the files are uploaded
to, not the indv. files.
Robert
----- Original Message -----
From: "JD Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Todd Williamsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 12:21 PM
Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] File Uploading... Two problems...
> I believe when PHP saves a file, it is already owned by the web server
user.
> In my case, nouser. I could not get this behaviour to change.
>
> Normally you should not need to CHMOD or CHOWN anything you upload unless
> you need them to be modified by ftp users as well.
> Just make sure the folder is writeable by the web server user. (Preferably
> not by anybody else... 777 is all bad :)
>
> If you do end up CHMODing:
> On SCO, the CHMOD command did not behave like I expected it to... adding
the
> umask made it all good... ie,
>
> $rand_name=generate_filename("","jpg")
>
> file://Save The Uploaded File To Disk
> @copy($image,
> "/home/sites/madden.williamsen.net/web/recruiter/resumes/$rand_name") or
> die("Couldn't Save File $image to $rand_name");
>
> (Note beginning slash... Robert helped you there :)
>
> file://Give It Perms
> umask(0);
>
chmod("/home/sites/madden.williamsen.net/web/recruiter/resumes/$temp_name",0
> 600);
> (on my SCO box, 600 is the default perms anyway )
>
> Here is my little funtion I use to generate file names: (It is not mine..
> but I cant remember who gave it to me :)
>
> function generate_filename ($len = 8,$ext)
> {
> $nps = "";
> mt_srand ((double) microtime() * 1000000);
>
> while (strlen($nps)<$len)
> {
>
> $c = chr(mt_rand (0,255));
>
> if (eregi("^[a-z0-9]$", $c)) $nps = $nps.$c;
>
> }
>
> $nps.=".$ext";
> return ($nps);
>
> }
>
> Of course, depending on what you are doing, completely random names may be
> useless... I save them as temporary files to resize them and save them in
a
> DB with the regular name with special chars stripped out.
>
> JD
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Weeks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 7:19 AM
> To: Todd Williamsen; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] File Uploading... Two problems...
>
>
> On 2/5/02 9:58 AM, "Todd Williamsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Now I have two small issues...
> >
> > 1. How would I automate the file naming otherwise errors will fly
(can't
> > copy file... blah blah)
>
> You could replace the file name with a randomly generated number. There
are
> a number of ways to generate random numbers in PHP. Try this for starters:
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mt-rand.php
>
> > 2. The second part is the most annoying. It seems that I cannot get
the
> > script to put the files into a directory I specify only where the script
> > resides. I thought it was a permission issue, but the folder has been
> chmod
> > to 777 and it still won't do it...
>
> You need the path from root to the directory. Now you have:
>
> "home/sites/madden.williamsen.net/web/recruiter/resumes/$img1_name"
>
> You need a forward slash before home:
>
> "/home/sites/madden.williamsen.net/web/recruiter/resumes/$img1_name"
>
> Instead of using chmod 777 (ick!) you should change the ownership of the
> file to be owned by the web server user which is usually "nobody" you can
do
> this with the chown command from the command line.
>
> Robert
> >
> > Directory structure
> >
> > home
> > web
> > recruiter < --- folder where the scripts reside
> > resumes <-- the destination where I want the uploaded files
to
> > reside
> >
> > here is the code...
> >
> > <?
> >
> > // if $img_name isn't empty, try to copy the file
> > if ($img1_name != "") {
> >
> > // copy the file to a directory or
> > file://die and print an error message
> >
> > // NOTE! if you're on a Windows machine,
> > // use Windows pathnames, like so:
> > // copy("$img1", "C:\\some\\directory\\path\\$img1_name");
> >
> > copy("$img1",
> > "home/sites/madden.williamsen.net/web/recruiter/resumes/$img1_name")
> > or die("Couldn't copy the file!");
> >
> > } else {
> >
> > // if $img_name was empty, die and let us know why
> > die("No input file specified");
> >
> > }
> >
> > ?>
> >
> > thanks
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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