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fstat

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

fstat — Gets information about a file using an open file pointer

Description

array fstat ( resource $handle )

Gathers the statistics of the file opened by the file pointer handle . This function is similar to the stat() function except that it operates on an open file pointer instead of a filename.

Parameters

handle

A file system pointer resource that is typically created using fopen().

Return Values

Returns an array with the statistics of the file; the format of the array is described in detail on the stat() manual page.

Examples

Example #1 fstat() example

<?php

// open a file
$fp fopen("/etc/passwd""r");

// gather statistics
$fstat fstat($fp);

// close the file
fclose($fp);

// print only the associative part
print_r(array_slice($fstat13));

?>

The above example will output something similar to:

Array
(
    [dev] => 771
    [ino] => 488704
    [mode] => 33188
    [nlink] => 1
    [uid] => 0
    [gid] => 0
    [rdev] => 0
    [size] => 1114
    [atime] => 1061067181
    [mtime] => 1056136526
    [ctime] => 1056136526
    [blksize] => 4096
    [blocks] => 8
)

Notes

Note: This function will not work on remote files as the file to be examined must be accessible via the server's filesystem.



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fstat
mordae at mordae dot net
29-Jan-2006 07:12
dom at dodgydom dot com wrote:
Best way i found was to open the url into $data and make a temporary file with the contents of $data then get the fstats on the temporary file :).

OMG why? The only thing that will remain is the file size. You also download up to 1G file, which probably is not what you want.

To get size use PHP's function filesize() with URL wrappers or ask yourself via HTTP.
sheran at comtrust dot co dot ae
21-Feb-2001 05:14
On Windows NT the typical array element names for the fstat function are:

dev
ino
mode
nlink
uid
gid
size
atime
mtime
ctime

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