php: making HTML files writable without having to set CHOMD to 777 maually?

Hi there,

I need to add some changes to a html file that has been upload onto the server. When a user selects an already uploaded html file, they can make changes to that file and overwrite it.

The only problem here is that the html file that are uploaded are not writable? Bedsides manually changing the CHMOD to 777 for all the html files is there another to do this?

Thanks

what sort of alternative are you looking for? DO you mean there are a lot of files and you want to do them all in a batch? in which case select them all and do them like that. Or if you have command line access you can do it through there...

does that help? or am i missing what you need to know?