fstat

Gets information about a file using an open file pointer (PHP 4, PHP 5)
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 649. fstat() example

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<?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($fstat, 13));

?>

The above example will output something similar to:

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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 servers filesystem.

Code Examples / Notes » fstat

sheran

On Windows NT the typical array element names for the fstat function are: dev ino mode nlink uid gid size atime mtime ctime

mordae

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.

jason

Currently fstat() is indexed by name instead of by number like stat(). Example: $s_array=fstat($fp); print $s_array["mtime"];fclose($fp);