Setting folder permissions in Windows via PHP

Question

Is there a way to properly set folder permissions via PHP on a Windows filesystem, such as granting user A full access, and user B read-only on folder \\fileserver\shares\users\A\

I can't seem to find any PHP functions for Windows filesystems for PHP

Any ideas?

Answer 1

If you have the ability to call command-line processes, you could use SetACL (if you need very detailed control) otherwise, CACLS is built in.

Answer 2

Despite using the Unix file permission syntax, PHP's chmod() function does work in Windows (I just tested it).

If your user A was the file owner and user B wasn't then it would be easy to grant one set of permissions to user A and different permissions to user B. You can set the owner of a file using the chown() function (again, Unix-like syntax, but works with Windows, subject to your PHP program having sufficient permissions to itself to make the change).

Hope that helps.