[SOLVED] mkdir help need

[spires]

Hi

 

I have just created a new directory using php:

mkdir('pdffiles/'.$user, 0777, true);

 

however, the permissions are still set to 0755 not 0777?

 

So I have also tried the following:

chmod('/var/www/html/businessmobiles.com/comcalc/pdffiles/'.$user', 0777);

 

Which also as no effect.

 

Any ideas why?

 

Thanks

[spires]

Hi

 

I found a forum post to do with umask.

So I gave it a go and it worked.

 

I'm not to sure why it worked but it did.

If anyone could explain what happened, that would be great

 

$old_umask = umask(0);

mkdir('pdffiles/'.$user, 0777, true);

umask($old_mask);