e>
</p>
<p class="critical"><strong>Note:</strong> This is not an accurate way of determining file mime types, and is here strictly as a convenience. It should not be  used for security.</p>

<h2>symbolic_permissions(<kbd>$perms</kbd>)</h2>

<p>Takes numeric permissions (such as is returned by <kbd>fileperms()</kbd> and returns standard symbolic notation of file permissions.</p>

<code>echo symbolic_permissions(fileperms('./index.php'));<br />
<br />
// -rw-r--r--</code>

<h2>octal_permissions(<kbd>$perms</