fopen() permission problem

[moose4204l]

I am creating a PHP page where I need to create a file, the snippet code i am using is

$fp = fopen("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/../Adirectory/Afile.txt", 'w' )

 

but when i run the page, i get a permissions problem. then I chmod'ed the folder to 755 and it didnt work, then I chmod'ed it to 777 and it worked. However, my question is, is this the real way to do it or does that have a security risk involved? Is there a different way I should be doing this?

[Presto-X]

I think you could do somthing like this:

 

chmod("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/../Adirectory/", 7777);
$fp = fopen("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/../Adirectory/Afile.txt", 'w' )
chmod("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/../Adirectory/", 0755);

 

Hit up http://us.php.net/chmod for more information about it.

 

 

[moose4204l]

cant find answer, anyone know?