Compo pearoast #2


From the Kids TV from the Planet Wrong challenge. See all 587 entries (closed)

(AdrianJ, Fri 4 Jun 2004, 23:18, archived)

can i tj with a quick technical question
is it possible to change file permissions from within a php script?
( lemony, Fri 4 Jun 2004, 23:21, archived)

I don't know
but it's a trivial matter in Perl
( Moon Girl Technologies agent of Yahweh, Fri 4 Jun 2004, 23:23, archived)

perl makes me sad though

( lemony, Fri 4 Jun 2004, 23:26, archived)

perl is evil
oh yes.

perl regexs are nice though.
( slight yoinks!, Fri 4 Jun 2004, 23:27, archived)

It makes me happy
when I finally manage to get it to work
( Moon Girl Technologies agent of Yahweh, Fri 4 Jun 2004, 23:31, archived)

I don't know.. But what I DO know is that I like chocolate biscuits..
Huzzah!
( Jam Master Geordie FACEBOOK FANPAGE! http://tinyurl.com/ctbb2q ., Fri 4 Jun 2004, 23:23, archived)

me too
What a kwinky-dinky
( faithy, Fri 4 Jun 2004, 23:24, archived)

me too
What a kwinky-dinky
( Moon Girl Technologies agent of Yahweh, Fri 4 Jun 2004, 23:24, archived)

yep
uk.php.net/manual/en/function.chmod.php

watch out for the umask gotcha, it works a bit differently to chmod on the command line.
( slight yoinks!, Fri 4 Jun 2004, 23:26, archived)

cheers muchly
i really ought to have looked for that function name... silly me
( lemony, Fri 4 Jun 2004, 23:29, archived)

add a 0 before the normal mode
so:

chmod( 'filename', 0755 );

is equiv to

bash$ chmod 755 filename
( slight yoinks!, Fri 4 Jun 2004, 23:33, archived)

cheers!
*duely notes*
( lemony, Fri 4 Jun 2004, 23:36, archived)

naughty Brians testing on animals
Virgil looks really pissed off
woo!
(Alex is a lucky girl, Fri 4 Jun 2004, 23:25, archived)

Subtle

YAY for Thunderbirds...best of all Anderson puppetry (along with Stingray, Joe90, Fireball XL5)

terrahawks was utter utter twuntsticks...so there
( Attila the Bun is not in a right cunt of a mood, Fri 4 Jun 2004, 23:29, archived)

pfft
brill!
( Roman Totale, Fri 4 Jun 2004, 23:32, archived)