chown

(PHP 3 <= 3.0.18, PHP 4 >= 4.0.0)

chown -- Changes file owner

Description

int chown (string filename, mixed user)

Attempts to change the owner of the file filename to user user (specified by name or number). Only the superuser may change the owner of a file.

Returns TRUE on success; otherwise returns FALSE.

See also chown() and chmod().

Note: This function is not implemented on Windows platforms.