Pass octal value to function

Does anyone know how to pass an octal value to a function
successfully?
I am trying to create a class to handle directory permissions but
passing the permission settings is going nowhere.

Octals seem to automatically get converted to decimal when sent and
when trying to convert back using decoct the 0 is dropped.
I have also tried sending as a string but chmod() does not accept
string input and I haven't been able to convert back to a number &
retain the leading 0.

Thanks

sample.

test(0777);

function test($myvar){
echo "PASSED VAL:".$myvar;
// PASSED VAL:511
echo "DECOCT:".decoct($myvar);
// DECOCT:777
echo "STRING:".(('0'.decoct($myvar))*1);
// STRING:777

"Brad-H" <brad.hile@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:632f8a86.0501231653.782d0f0e@posting.google.c om...
> Does anyone know how to pass an octal value to a function
> successfully?
> I am trying to create a class to handle directory permissions but
> passing the permission settings is going nowhere.
>
> Octals seem to automatically get converted to decimal when sent and
> when trying to convert back using decoct the 0 is dropped.
> I have also tried sending as a string but chmod() does not accept
> string input and I haven't been able to convert back to a number &
> retain the leading 0.
>
> Thanks
>
> sample.
>
> test(0777);
>
> function test($myvar){
> echo "PASSED VAL:".$myvar;
> // PASSED VAL:511

ok so what's wrong there? i guess if you'd pass the (decimal) 511 to chmod,
it'll interpret it just like it'd interpret a literal 0777.

> echo "DECOCT:".decoct($myvar);
> // DECOCT:777
> echo "STRING:".(('0'.decoct($myvar))*1);
> // STRING:777

try
echo "STRING:". '0'.(decoct($myvar)*1);

you first prepended the '0', making it a string, and then multiplied by 1,
turning it into an integer again.

You could just send the octal as a string -> "0777" instead of just
0777. PHP is pretty loose, strings and integers can be interchanged.