PHP: fileowner

fileowner

(PHP 3, PHP 4, PHP 5)

fileowner -- Gets file owner

Description

int fileowner ( string filename )

Returns the user ID of the owner of the file, or FALSE in case of an error. The user ID is returned in numerical format, use posix_getpwuid() to resolve it to a username.

Note: The results of this function are cached. See clearstatcache() for more details.

Tip: As of PHP 5.0.0 this function can also be used with some URL wrappers. Refer to Appendix L for a listing of which wrappers support stat() family of functionality.

See also stat()

User Contributed Notes
fileowner

Alienka
25-Apr-2003 05:26


I have PHP Version 4.3.0 running under Windows 2000.

And this function is available :)

It returns a boolean false if the file given as a parameter does not exist. And returns integer 0 for a file that does exist.

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Last updated: Thu, 19 May 2005