PHP code mkdir('images','0777') creates a folder with 411 permissions! Why?

Question

I could swear this was working yesterday. Now however the code below destroys the folder with no problem but creates a new folder with 411 permissions when it should be 777. My code was doing this yesterday.

The purpose of this is to zip up a folder, deliver it, delete the images, then create a new directory for the images.

Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong or what i should be doing? Thanks

function delete_directory($dirname) {
   if (is_dir($dirname))
      $dir_handle = opendir($dirname);
   if (!$dir_handle)
      return false;
   while($file = readdir($dir_handle)) {
      if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
         if (!is_dir($dirname."/".$file))
            unlink($dirname."/".$file);
         else
            delete_directory($dirname.'/'.$file);     
      }
   }
   closedir($dir_handle);
   rmdir($dirname);
   return true;
}

$directoryToZip="jigsaw/"; // This will zip all the file(s) in this present working directory

$outputDir="/"; //Replace "/" with the name of the desired output directory.
$zipName="jigsaw.zip";

include_once("createzipfile/CreateZipFile.inc.php");
$createZipFile=new CreateZipFile;

/*
// Code to Zip a single file
$createZipFile->addDirectory($outputDir);
$fileContents=file_get_contents($fileToZip);
$createZipFile->addFile($fileContents, $outputDir.$fileToZip);
*/

//Code toZip a directory and all its files/subdirectories
$createZipFile->zipDirectory($directoryToZip,$outputDir);

/*
$rand=md5(microtime().rand(0,999999));
$zipName=$rand."_".$zipName;
*/
$fd=fopen($zipName, "wb");
$out=fwrite($fd,$createZipFile->getZippedfile());
fclose($fd);
$createZipFile->forceDownload($zipName);

@unlink($zipName);
delete_directory('jigsaw/assets/images/jigsaw_image');

mkdir('jigsaw/assets/images/jigsaw_image','0777');

Answer 1

Because you should be using the octal literal 0777, not the number-in-a-string "0777", which is actually 01411 in octal.

Answer 2

I had kinda same problem, but even after removing quotes, the permission will not be set to 0777.

mkdir("infosheets/c/" , 0777);

but the created folder is set to 0755!

thats the solution:

$test="infosheets/c/";
mkdir($test);
chmod($test,0777);

you should first make the folder and than set it's permission to 0777. they should be done separately for an unknown reason to me! strange!