One of the things that ZenMagick does not very well at the moment is handling file permissions of files it creates.

I just added this on my 1.0.0 tasklist, so hopefully it should get better soon.

Until then, there is a simple workaround – using the PHP Console that comes with ZenMagick (admin: ZenMagick -> Console.

The following shows the most useful commands for handling permissions.

getcwd();

Returns the current working directory. In the console context, this is going to be the full path to the admin folder: This is helpful to get your bearings.

chmod(..);

Another PHP function to change file permissions. For example, the following will grant full file permissions to everyone (user/group/other) to init.php:

chmod(getcwd().'/../zenmagick/init.php', 0777);

ZMTools::rmdir(..);

A very dangerous function that allows to recursively delete a folder tree incl. any containing files. To, say, delete an empty theme the following could be used:

ZMTools::rmdir(getcwd().’/../zenmagick/themes/MyTheme’);

Even though I used getcwd() in the examples to build the filename/directory name, it is worth using proper full names to minimize the chance of deleting anything accidentally.