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chmod

Name

chmod — Changes the access permissions of a file.

Synopsis

bool chmod(file, mode); string file: File to change int mode: File mode

Returns

TRUE on success; FALSE on error

Description

chmod() changes the permissions of the specified file. The file mode should be specified in octal format and hence should have a leading 0. For more information on octal notation of file permissions, see the UNIX man page on chmod.

Note

If safe mode is enabled, chmod() can only change the permissions of files that are owned by the user running the command. In most cases, this is the user that the web server runs as.

Example

Example 299. Change a file's permissions to "-rw-r--r--"

$file = "test_file";

if (! chmod($file, 0644)) {
    echo  ("Unable to change file permissions");
}

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