Changes the owner of a file or directory.

$file string Required

Path to the file or directory.

$owner string|int Required

A user name or number.

$recursive bool Optional

If set to true, changes file owner recursively.

Default: false

bool True on success, false on failure.

File: wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-direct.php. View all references

public function chown( $file, $owner, $recursive = false ) {
	if ( ! $this->exists( $file ) ) {
		return false;
	}

	if ( ! $recursive ) {
		return chown( $file, $owner );
	}

	if ( ! $this->is_dir( $file ) ) {
		return chown( $file, $owner );
	}

	// Is a directory, and we want recursive.
	$filelist = $this->dirlist( $file );

	foreach ( $filelist as $filename ) {
		$this->chown( $file . '/' . $filename, $owner, $recursive );
	}

	return true;
}