FILE_MODE Setting

FILE_REPOSITORY Index FILE_OVERWRITE

This page documents the FILE_MODE configuration setting in FormMail.

Type Of Setting

FILE_MODE is an OPTIONAL setting, which means...

OPTIONAL : you can change this setting if you need to, but the default value is fine for most circumstances.

Sets the permission modes for uploaded files.

Set FILE_MODE to the permission mode you want for files saved to FILE_REPOSITORY.

To understand the valid values, you can read about the "chmod" command on any Linux system. This page is also helpful: www.php.net/chmod.

Useful values:

0664	read-write by owner and group, read by others
0666	read-write by everyone
0444	read-only by everyone
0644	read-write by owner, read by everyone else
0	don't set the protection mode (skips setting)

Remember that uploaded files may be owned by "apache" or "nobody", or some other user name on your Linux or Unix server.

FILE_MODE may have no effect on Windows servers.

From version 9 onwards:

$FILE_MODE = 0664;

Before version 9:

define("FILE_MODE",0664);

From version 9 onwards:

$FILE_MODE = 0;

Before version 9:

define("FILE_MODE",0);