# @ symbol in php and chown questions

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**Created:** [July 27, 2006, 2:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/symbol-in-php-and-chown-questions/194959 "2006-07-27T14:03:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 2:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/symbol-in-php-and-chown-questions/194959/1 "2006-07-27T14:03:30Z")

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I was looking up some info on the copy function in php, on their website and some of the comments use the copy function as such,

@copy($source, $dest);

what does the @ do?

another thing, is after i copy my files, they are all owned by httpd. how do i change these back to my ftp username. I tried using right after the copy function chown, but to no avail. also, al the files are 644. how would i go about chmoding them to 755?

thanks