check CHMOD value?

[LemonInflux]

OK, in a matter of speaking, I'm building a script that builds itself. It's working fine, but I was struck with a thought; for some of the files that will be script-created, they will need to be 777 CHMOD value. So is there a code that checks a file's CHMOD value? I basically want to say 'if $file has 777 CHMOD do this, else do this'. I can do the if bit, I was just wondering how I would do the CHMOD bit?

[wildteen88]

If you want to see if a file/folder is writeable, readable or executable use is_writeable, is_readable or is_executable

[LemonInflux]

ok. Also, I was just browsing, and found this:

 

chmod("path/to/file.something", 0777);

 

would that change file.something's CHMOD value to 777?

[wildteen88]

Yes. It will attempt to change the chmod value of a specified file/folder.

 

Please read the notes carefully for this function in the manual

[LemonInflux]

Read it.

 

Note: This function will not work on remote files as the file to be examined must be accessible via the servers filesystem.

 

What does this mean? I can't change the CHMOD via PHP?

[darkfreaks]

keep scrolling down there is a sample chmod via ftp script.