dealing with files in php

Question

I am creating a file with php. I just want to be able to create it, with no content, under a directory. Then I want to be able to edit it when I access my server with ftp. I can't! The user of php is different from the ftp user, and this last one does not have permissions to change it! I tried chmod,umask,chown, but nothing works. Anybody knows how to do it? Thanks

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Answer 1

Give your file world writeable permissions chmod('filename', 0666)

Answer 2

In PHP, after you move or otherwise create the file, just change it's permissions using chmod():

chmod($file, 0666);

Don't give execute permissions (which 0777 would) otherwise someone on the system can execute it. Huge security vulnerability.