Advanced Permissions OR .. folder sync

[helptar]

Let me start with the ultimate goal of this question.

 

I have a script that uploads an image to the folder (large class, no sample code).. It is saved in: (cPanel domains)

 

/home/USER1/public_html/sample.php

 

It saves the images to:

 

/home/USER1/public_html/imgs

 

Which WORKS great! ...But!.. I need it to read a username and save the images to that domains 'imgs' folder. For example:

 

Passed: 'USER2'

Save Image To: /home/USER2/public_html/imgs

 

Passed: 'USER3'

Save Image To: /home/USER3/public_html/imgs

 

...

 

Thats a problem because the PHP file when ran doesn't have permissions to write outside its own public_html directory. Is there any Safe and Secure way to do this? 

 

....

 

Okay last resort..

 

Otherwise, is there a way to set up dir's from into the local /imgs dir to sync or mirror to other domains..

 

for example:

/home/USER1/public_html/imgs/USER2

to sync files with /home/USER2/public_html/imgs

 

and

/home/USER1/public_html/imgs/USER3

to sync files with /home/USER3/public_html/imgs

 

Please help! ;-) I will even send you a cookie! 

[Adam]

If you're able to access the file system and change permissions, you could chown the directories to the Apache PHP user. That may give you the required write permissions you need.