PHP: fstat - Manual

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.

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

Example 1. fstat() example

<?php // open a file $fp = fopen("/etc/passwd", "r"); // gather statistics $fstat = fstat($fp); // close the file fclose($fp); // print only the associative part print_r(array_slice($fstat, 13)); ?>
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 )

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

User Contributed Notes
fstat

dom at dodgydom dot com
12-Feb-2003 10:33


Example for getting remote file stats.



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 :).



$url="http://www.testurl.com";

$fp=fopen($url,"r");

$data=fread($fp,"1000000");

fclose($fp);



$test_file="./temp_file.txt";

$fp_test=fopen($test_file,"w+");

$fp_write=fputs($fp_test,$data);

fclose($fp_test);



$stat_file='./temp_file.txt';

$test_fp=fopen($stat_file,"r");

$stats=fstat($test_fp);

fclose($test_fp);



print_r($stats);



Seems to work fine for me, If there is a quicker way i havn't found it yet.

sheran at comtrust dot co dot ae
21-Feb-2001 07:14


On Windows NT the typical array element names for the fstat function are:





dev


ino


mode


nlink


uid


gid


size


atime


mtime


ctime

jason at inetgurs dot net
14-Nov-2000 09:01


Currently fstat() is indexed by name instead of by number like stat().





Example: $s_array=fstat($fp); print $s_array["mtime"];fclose($fp);