issue with admin image upload

[dnbhead22]

Warning: imagejpeg() [function.imagejpeg]: Unable to open '/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/images/category/90f9f5fb6bd92875b85a69ed2f5749cc.jpg' for writing: Permission denied in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/admin/library/functions.php on line 254

 

getting this error when i try to upload a photo using my admin section of a shopping cart. cant figure it out. any help greatly appreciated. heres my code:

 

function copyImage($srcFile, $destFile, $w, $h, $quality = 75)
{
    $tmpSrc     = pathinfo(strtolower($srcFile));
    $tmpDest    = pathinfo(strtolower($destFile));
    $size       = getimagesize($srcFile);

    if ($tmpDest['extension'] == "gif" || $tmpDest['extension'] == "jpg")
    {
       $destFile  = substr_replace($destFile, 'jpg', -3);
       $dest      = imagecreatetruecolor($w, $h);
       imageantialias($dest, TRUE);
    } elseif ($tmpDest['extension'] == "png") {
       $dest = imagecreatetruecolor($w, $h);
       imageantialias($dest, TRUE);
    } else {
      return false;
    }

    switch($size[2])
    {
       case 1:       //GIF
           $src = imagecreatefromgif($srcFile);
           break;
       case 2:       //JPEG
           $src = imagecreatefromjpeg($srcFile);
           break;
       case 3:       //PNG
           $src = imagecreatefrompng($srcFile);
           break;
       default:
           return false;
           break;
    }

    imagecopyresampled($dest, $src, 0, 0, 0, 0, $w, $h, $size[0], $size[1]);

    switch($size[2])
    {
       case 1:
       case 2:
           imagejpeg($dest,$destFile, $quality);
           break;
       case 3:
           imagepng($dest,$destFile);
    }
    return $destFile;

}

 

 

 

[dnbhead22]

line 254 being

case 2:
imagejpeg($dest,$destFile, $quality);
break;

[Jessica]

What are the permissions on the folder?