why isn't this symlink script working?

[verbatim1]

I was told that the code below would create symlinks in php.

$path = "/home/user/orig_file";
$path_new = "/home/user/link_file";

symlink($path_new, $path);

I 'reconfigured' it to work to my needs, but it doesnt.

the paths i am trying to link are below:

$path = "/home/some/dep/";
$path_new = "/home/mem/main/users/{$username}/";

symlink($path_new, $path);

the script is in the /home/mem/main/ directory by the way

 

[verbatim1]

so i figured out that i had the path order reversed.

Now i am trying to figure out how i would go about setting the permissions to 0755 for the $path_new.

symlink ($path, $path_new, 0755) didnt work for me.

 

[DRJ478]

Symbolic links have ownership, but no permissions.
Anything you do on a symbolic links points to the actual file/directory. If you want to change the permissions change them at the point where the link points to.

 

[verbatim1]

thanks very much