Change permissions of file uploaded by PHP

Question

I have created a small scale CMS for a website I am working on and have a form that uploads image files to be used on the website. It uploads the files successfully but the

Answer 1

PHP Manaual chmod http://php.net/manual/en/function.chmod.php

chmod("/somedir/somefile", 0755);

In context;

$typepath = $_POST['filetype'];

$target_path = "../../images/uploads/".$typepath."/";

$target_path = $target_path . basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']); 

if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['uploadedfile']['tmp_name'], $target_path)) {
    chmod($target_path, 0755);
    echo "
The file ".  basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']). 
    " has been uploaded
\n
To the directory:  ".substr($target_path, 6)."
";
} else{
    echo "There was an error uploading the file, please try again!";
}