{"id":72,"date":"2017-11-07T16:45:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T14:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lyubomir-angelov.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2017-10-17T23:25:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T20:25:59","slug":"how-to-change-directory-permissions-in-php","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lyubomir-angelov.com\/blog\/how-to-change-directory-permissions-in-php\/","title":{"rendered":"How to change directory permissions in PHP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In general, there is no big problem and it is quite easy to change permissions of a directory to 0777 or something different, you simply do (if you create) <code>mkdir(&#039;\/project\/data\/videos&#039;, 0777)<\/code> but this might not work&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you check the permissions you will see that they are not <code>0777<\/code> but <code>0755 - drwxr-xr-x<\/code> and this is because of your <code>umask<\/code>, which is 022 in this case.<\/p>\n<p>So if we use 0777 as permission set, umask will be subtracted from our permissions.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  0777<br \/>\n&#8211; 0022<br \/>\n======<br \/>\n  0755\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because of umask we have to first get the current umask (you don&#8217;t want to change it forever), set it to zero, create the dir with 0777 and then return the default umask<\/p>\n<pre class=\"language-php\"><code>\n$umask = umask(0);\nmkdir(&#039;\/project\/data\/videos&#039;, 0777);\numask($umask);\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Now the permissions of the created directory will be 0777, if you want you can read more about umask <a href=\"https:\/\/askubuntu.com\/questions\/44542\/what-is-umask-and-how-does-it-work?answertab=votes#tab-top\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In general, there is no big problem and it is quite easy to change permissions of a directory to 0777 or something different, you simply do (if you create) mkdir(&#039;\/project\/data\/videos&#039;, 0777) but this might not work&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-php"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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