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Saturday 28th of November 2009 in PHP

A tutorial to change file permissions dynamically with php

first define the function name in this case call it change Permissions with two parameters $path is the path to the folder and $modlevel is the permissions level to use.

<?php

function changePermissions($path,$modlevel){

?>

Then using the command chmod we change the file permissions

<?php

chmod($path,$modlevel);

?>

then do an if statement to see if it's worked or failed this is optional

<?php

if(chmod){

echo "success";

} else {

echo "failed";

}

?>

to run the function you need to call it, you call it by typing it's name with the parameters

<?php

changePermissions("assets/images/uploads/",777);

?>

here's the full script:

<?php

function changePermissions($path,$modlevel){

chmod($path,$modlevel); 

if(chmod){

echo "success";

} else {

echo "failed";

}

}

changePermissions("assets/images/uploads/",777);

?>

That's it now you should be able to change file permissions dynamically with php.