note 36495 added to function.chown

As far as I can tell, PHP's built in functions will not do a recursive chown or chgrp. But it wouldn't be hard to write a function for this. Here is some starter code based on an example written by John Coggeshall which I found at http://www.coggeshall.org : function recurse_chown_chgrp($path2dir, $uid, $gid){ $dir = new dir($path2dir); while(($file = $dir->read()) !== false) { if(is_dir($dir->path.$file)) { recurse_chown_chgrp($dir->path.$file, $uid, $gid); } else { chown($file, $uid); chgrp($file, $gid); } } $dir->close(); } I have not tested this code (but I think it will work) because for my current needs, a simple exec("chown -r $user.$group $path"); is sufficient. I would need this code if I were not in control of the contents of these variables because they can be dangerous on the command line. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.chown.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+36495 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+36495&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+36495&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php