Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Getting File Permissions in PHP

PHP has an built-in function to know the permissions assigned to it. Take a look at the following code

echo fileperms("test.txt");
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Out Put the above code is

33206

To get permissions in octal value

echo substr(sprintf("%o",fileperms("test.txt")),-4);
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Out Put the above code is

1777

Changing Permissions of a file

// Read and write for owner, nothing for everybody else
chmod("test.txt",0600);

// Read and write for owner, read for everybody else
chmod("test.txt",0644);

// Everything for owner, read and execute for everybody else
chmod("test.txt",0755);

// Everything for owner, read for owner's group
chmod("test.txt",0740);
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