set permissions for all files and folders recursively

php permissions chmod
testing picture testing · Feb 13, 2012 · Viewed 53.6k times · Source

I want to recursively set the folder and file permissions. Folders should get 750 and files 644. I found this and made some adaptions. Would this one work?

<?php

function chmod_r($Path) {
   $dp = opendir($Path);
   while($File = readdir($dp)) {
      if($File != "." AND $File != "..") {
         if(is_dir($File)){
            chmod($File, 0750);
         }else{
             chmod($Path."/".$File, 0644);
             if(is_dir($Path."/".$File)) {
                chmod_r($Path."/".$File);
             }
         }
      }
   }
   closedir($dp);
}

?>

Answer

Sergey P. aka azure picture Sergey P. aka azure · Feb 13, 2012

Why don't use find tool for this?

exec ("find /path/to/folder -type d -exec chmod 0750 {} +");
exec ("find /path/to/folder -type f -exec chmod 0644 {} +");

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