chmod

[corruption]

I have a news script that needs to have chmod(0777); done to it, however the schools server is IIS and doesn't allow ftp connections can i do it via this or does each command need to be in the file that needs to be chmod'ed

<?php
chmod("/news/index.php", 0777);
chmod("/news/data/cat.num.php", 0777);
chmod("/news/data/category.db.php", 0777);
chmod("/news/data/comments.php", 0777);
chmod("/news/data/config.php", 0777);
chmod("/news/default.tpl", 0777);
chmod("/news/data/emoticons", 0777);
chmod("/news/data/flood.db.php", 0777);
chmod("/news/data/Headlines.tpl", 0777);
chmod("/news/data/ipban.db.php", 0777);
chmod("/news/data/news.txt", 0777);
chmod("/news/data/users.db.php", 0777);
?>

[CMallette]

If your school runs IIS, that means it is most likely using Windows.

As far as I know, CHMOD does not even exist on Windows, it only exists on UNIX based operating systems.

You can skip the CHMOD part.

[Newrules]

It does work on windows
btw its not 777 its 775 for non-writeable or 666 for writeable

[laserlight]

It shouldnt have any effect on Windows since Windows doesnt use that permission system.

Also, your comment on 775 and 666 are a little inaccurate....

[Newrules]

no its not
http://br.php.net/manual/pt_BR/function.chmod.php
user added contributions

[corruption]

I noticed that the program checked some of the files, and some were 666, some were 777, but the ones that were 666 didn't act as if they were writable. The program said it couldn't write to the file so I don't know how to go about changing that.

File / Folder Current CHMOD value Status

d:/inetpub2/organizations/dsp/news/index.php 666 Writable
d:/inetpub2/organizations/dsp/news/data/ 777 Writable
d:/inetpub2/organizations/dsp/news/data/archives 777 Writable
d:/inetpub2/organizations/dsp/news/data/backup 777 Writable
d:/inetpub2/organizations/dsp/news/data/cat.num.php 666 Writable
d:/inetpub2/organizations/dsp/news/data/category.db.php 666 Writable
d:/inetpub2/organizations/dsp/news/data/comments.txt 666 Writable
d:/inetpub2/organizations/dsp/news/data/config.php 666 Writable
d:/inetpub2/organizations/dsp/news/data/Default.tpl 666 Writable
d:/inetpub2/organizations/dsp/news/data/emoticons 777 Writable
d:/inetpub2/organizations/dsp/news/data/flood.db.php 666 Writable
d:/inetpub2/organizations/dsp/news/data/Headlines.tpl 666 Writable
d:/inetpub2/organizations/dsp/news/data/ipban.db.php 666 Writable
d:/inetpub2/organizations/dsp/news/data/news.txt 666 Writable
d:/inetpub2/organizations/dsp/news/data/upimages 777 Writable
d:/inetpub2/organizations/dsp/news/data/users.db.php 666 Writable
d:/inetpub2/organizations/dsp/news/data/_vti_cnf 777 Writable

gives this error on installing
Warning: fopen(./data/users.db.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in d:\inetpub2\organizations\dsp\news\inc\install.mdu on line 219
Sorry but installer can not write to file ./data/users.db.php,
please check if file exist and if it is properly CHMOD`ed

[laserlight]

Originally posted by Newrules
no its not
http://br.php.net/manual/pt_BR/function.chmod.php
user added contributions

That's probably only because Samba decided to make use of it.
Windows by it self does not use Unix type permissions.

I suspect they could just as easily have substituted a 0, 1, 2 system for non-readable, non-writable, and writable.