mkdir() to apply chmod 0777 for all subdirectories created

Question

When I call mkdir('/tmp/d/e/e/p/p/a/t/h/', 0777, true); I needed all the subdirectories created so far to have the specified chmod: 0777.

What can be the shortest way for this? I noticed that it did not happen.

root@server [/tmp]# ls -la /tmp/d/e/e/p/p/a/t/h/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 user group 4096 Aug  6 12:59 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 user group 4096 Aug  6 12:59 ../

Code:

<?php
mkdir('/tmp/d/e/e/p/p/a/t/h', 0777, true);
?>

Please have a look.

Can you explain little bit more your question, are you asking mkdir('/tmp/d/e/e/p/p/a/t/h', 0777, true); is not working?? — prashant thakre, Aug 06 '14 at 12:06
Please explain your question, are you want "temp,d,e,e,p,p,t,h" directories are set 0777 permission OR you want create these directories with one mkdir() function — deemi-D-nadeem, Aug 06 '14 at 12:14
at least the final directory h/ is NOT having 0777 permission. — Bimal Poudel, Aug 06 '14 at 12:40

chresse · Answer 1 · 2014-08-06T13:50:34.433

It is like jack sleight said on a php.net (http://php.net/manual/en/function.mkdir.php#96990)

you have to run a chmod for each of the directories of /tmp/d/e/e/p/p/a/t/h.

You can do it ie with a foreach loop. Something like this should work:

$path = "/tmp/d/e/e/p/p/a/t/h";
$dirs = explode("/", $path);
$cDirs = "";
foreach($dirs as $cDir) {
    $cDirs .= "/".$cDir;
    chmod($cDir, 0777);
}

HINT: If you are under linux you simply can run:

$path = "/tmp/d/e/e/p/p/a/t/h";
exec("mkdir -R ".$path);
exec("chmod -R 777 ".$path);

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 06 '14 at 12:19

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I'd do it in a single line:

exec('install -d -m 0777 /tmp/d/e/e/p/p/a/t/h');

This creates all directories recursively with the specified mask in one step.

answered Aug 06 '14 at 12:19

Daniel W.

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I also needed to do **chmod -R 777 /tmp/d/** to get my answer; needed to set 0777 for all subdirectories created by this script. – Bimal Poudel Aug 06 '14 at 13:34
umask=`umask`; umask 0000; mkdir -p /tmp/d/e/e/p/p/a/t/h; umask $unask; – Bimal Poudel Aug 07 '14 at 06:49
or `mkdir -p /tmp/d/e/e/p/p/a/t/h && chmod 777 /tmp/d/e/e/p/p/a/t/h -R` – Daniel W. Aug 07 '14 at 07:25
The goal was to set chmod 777 for all subdirectories created, d/, e/, e/, p/, p/, a/ t/, h/ at once. – Bimal Poudel Aug 07 '14 at 10:17
@BimalPoudel using `-R` option sets recursive chmod on every subdir. `cd /tmp/ && mkdir -p d/e/e/p/p/a/t/h && chmod 777 d/e/e/p/p/a/t/h -R` – Daniel W. Aug 07 '14 at 10:33

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