stat()

stat - Gives information about a file

Syntax

array stat (string $filename)

Arguments

• filename - Path to the file.

Description

Gathers the statistics of the file named by filename. If filename is a symbolic link, statistics are from the file itself, not the symlink.

Version

PHP 4, 5

Return value

stat() and fstat() result format Numeric Associative (since PHP 4.0.6) Description 0 dev device number 1 ino inode number * 2 mode inode protection mode 3 nlink number of links 4 uid userid of owner * 5 gid groupid of owner * 6 rdev device type, if inode device 7 size size in bytes 8 atime time of last access (Unix timestamp) 9 mtime time of last modification (Unix timestamp) 10 ctime time of last inode change (Unix timestamp) 11 blksize blocksize of filesystem IO ** 12 blocks number of 512-byte blocks allocated ** * On Windows this will always be 0.