how to check file permission ?

[graziano68]

hello

how to check file permission using php ? I know php chmod() can set right permission
but how to know current permission of a file ?

Thank you!

[Raju Gautam]

I am not sure about getting file permission. So i also curious to know about it if any function or way in PHP.

Since you can add/set new permission to file/directory according to your requirements, why do you wanna get/know file permission?

[graziano68]

infact I am using is_writeable , but as is seems there is no php command to know permission for a file.

[andrewtayloruk]

http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/function.fileperms.php

fileperms
(PHP 4, PHP 5)

fileperms — Gets file permissions

Description
int fileperms ( string $filename )

Gets permissions for the given file.

Parameters

filename
Path to the file.


Return Values
Returns the permissions on the file, or FALSE in case of an error.


Hope this helps

Andrew

[Raju Gautam]

http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/function.fileperms.php
fileperms
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
fileperms — Gets file permissions
Description
int fileperms ( string $filename )
Gets permissions for the given file.
Parameters
filename
Path to the file.
Return Values
Returns the permissions on the file, or FALSE in case of an error.
Hope this helps
Andrew

Thank you Andrew. I haven't that function and never tried to look for though because if i can directly set the permissions then i did not look for that.

Thank you once again. Lol!

[graziano68]

ok thank you!