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PHP Copy Function issue with file permissions

Hi all,

I am using to copy function to copy a file from one place to the other.

It works well but the problem is that the copied file cannot be deleted as it says permision denied.

Does anyone know how to fix this please?

THanks

Marco Gasi

Hi error77. Are you sure files to delete and their directory have permission 0777?

error77

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Well, the file that's copied is 777 on source but 644 when copied by the copy function :o/

Marco Gasi

Sorry, I'll try to be more clear: you asked for deleting files, but the folder where these files are in does have permissions set to 0777? Not files it self, but the directory itself?

And about what you said, ensure the destination directory, not only files, have permissions 0777.

Cheers

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error77

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The Folder is created using mkdir and contains cmod 755 (for some reason it won't let me change it.)

So, yes, it's a permission issue. I just want to control these permissions?

Make sense?

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error77

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Also, I still cannot delete these folder :o/

Keith Brown

I'm not sure which method you're using to copy the file, but the GNU cp command does have the ability to preserve permissions. Here is a quote from the cp manpage

-p same as --preserve=mode,ownership,timestamps
--preserve[=ATTR_LIST]
preserve the specified attributes (default: mode,ownership,timestamps), if possible additional attributes: context, links, xattr, all

So, using "cp -p originalfilename targetfilename" should help.

Keith Brown

Also, I should note that you should use the the exec() or or shell_exec() if you use this method.

<?php
echo exec('cp -p originalfilename targetfilename');
?>

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