Re: [PHP] How to determine if file is writable and deletable

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On 07/05/2008, Al <[email protected]> wrote:
> I need to determine if a file is truly deletable by a php script, Deleting
> permissions seem to be
> the same as writing, they probably have the same criteria.

You're not writing to the file, you're unlinking it from the
containing directory, so it's the directory's permissions that matter,
not the file's.

All you really need to do is check that the directory is_writable()

is_writable(dirname($filename));

-robin
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