you could use the chown method in php, which should do what you need. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
----- Reply message ----- From: "Moses" <jam...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jan 18, 2011 09:44 Subject: [PHP] [PHP]: permission problem www-data To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Hi Everyone, I am creating a file in PHP script which takes a value from a form and writes it to a file. However, i don't have the mode permission for the file instead it is owned by www-data.What can i do to ensure that the file is owned by me. drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 2011-01-17 22:01 18757170111.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 40 2011-01-17 23:39 32238.hydro Thanks.
