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(PHP 4, PHP 5, PECL maxdb:7.5.00.24-7.6.00.38)

stat — Entrega información sobre un archivo

Descripción

array stat ( string $nombre_archivo )

Reúne las estadísticas del archivo con el nombre nombre_archivo . Si nombre_archivo es un enlace simbólico, las estadísticas son del archivo mismo, no del enlace.

lstat() es una función idéntica a stat(), con la excepción de que esta última utiliza la información de status de los enlaces simbólicos.

Lista de parámetros

nombre_archivo

Ruta al archivo.

Valores retornados

Formato de resultados de stat() y fstat()
Numérico Asociativo (desde PHP 4.0.6) Descripción
0 dev número de dispositivo
1 ino número de inode
2 mode modo de protección inode
3 nlink número de enlaces
4 uid id de usuario del dueño
5 gid id de grupo del dueño
6 rdev tipo de dispositivo, si hay dispositivo inode *
7 size tamaño en bytes
8 atime hora del último acceso (marca de tiempo Unix)
9 mtime hora de la última modificación (marca de tiempo Unix)
10 ctime hora del último cambio del inode (marca de tiempo Unix)
11 blksize tamaño de bloque de E/S del sistema de archivos *
12 blocks número de bloques reservados *
* Válido únicamente en sistemas que soportan el tipo st_blksize - los demás sistemas (p.ej. Windows) devuelven -1.

En caso de error, stat() devuelve FALSE.

Errors/Exceptions

En caso de fallo, un error de nivel E_WARNING es emitido.

Registro de cambios

Versión Descripción
4.0.6 Además de devolver estos atributos en una matriz numérica, éstos pueden ser accesados con índices asociativos, como se nota al lado de cada parámetro

Notes

Note: Los resultados de esta función son guardados. Consultar clearstatcache() para más detalles.

Tip

A partir de PHP 5.0.0, esta funcion tambien puede usarse con algunas URL como nombre de fichero. Consultar Lista de Protocolos/Envolturas Soportadas, para obtener una lista con soporte para la funcionalidad stat().



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Last updated: Tue, 27 Nov 2007
 
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JulieC
31-Jan-2007 05:21
The dir_size function provided by "marting.dc AT gmail.com" works great, except the $mas variable is not initialized.  Add:

   $mas = 0;

before the while() loop.
piranha-php dot net at thoughtcrime dot us
17-Jul-2006 03:04
stat() returns a file's _status_, not its _statistics_.  "Statistics" implies information interpreted from the data of several files, not concrete meaning from a single file.  Both Linux and POSIX manual pages for stat() list the name as "stat - get file status," and do not mention the word "statistic" anywhere.
hugues dot larrive at gmail dot com
08-Jun-2006 11:49
salisbm at hotmail dot com said :
(...)to see if the file is a directory, after calling fstat, I do:
if ($fstats[mode] & 040000)
  ... this must be a directory

Then I say no no no no... it can be a directory or a named pipe, or a block spécial ...

The good code for this thing is :
<?
if(($fstat['mode'] & 0170000) == 040000) echo "Be sure it is a directory !";
?>

Sorry for very ugly english ;)
@+
16-May-2006 08:10
Re note posted by "admin at smitelli dot com"

I'm not sure how that can work all year round since you have to modify both opposing inside and outside DST based on the actual files themselves, as well as the current DST setting for the system.

e.g. using filemtime, same thing for stat.

<?php

$mtime
= filemtime($file);

if (
date('I') == 1) {
   
// Win DST is enabled, adjust standard time
    // files back to 'real' file UTC.
   
if (date('I', $mtime) == 0) {
       
$mtime -= 3600;
    }
} else {
   
// Win DST is disabled, adjust daylight time
    // files forward to 'real' file UTC.
   
if (date('I', $mtime) == 1) {
       
$mtime += 3600;
    }
}

echo
gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s', $mtime);

?>

Just another example of why 'not' to use windows in a server room.
marting.dc AT gmail.com
29-Jan-2006 03:08
If you want to know a directory size, this function will help you:

<?
function dir_size($dir)
{
   
$handle = opendir($dir);
   
    while (
$file = readdir($handle)) {
        if (
$file != '..' && $file != '.' && !is_dir($dir.'/'.$file)) {
           
$mas += filesize($dir.'/'.$file);
            } else if (
is_dir($dir.'/'.$file) && $file != '..' && $file != '.') {
           
$mas += dir_size($dir.'/'.$file);
        }
    }
    return
$mas;
}
echo
dir_size('DIRECTORIO').' Bytes';
?>
admin at smitelli dot com
03-Nov-2005 09:27
There's an important (yet little-known) problem with file dates on Windows and Daylight Savings. This affects the 'atime' and 'mtime' elements returned by stat(), and it also affects other filesystem-related functions such as fileatime() and filemtime().

During the winter months (when Daylight Savings isn't in effect), Windows will report a certain timestamp for a given file. However, when summer comes and Daylight Savings starts, Windows will report a DIFFERENT timestamp! Even if the file hasn't been altered at all, Windows will shift every timestamp it reads forward one full hour during Daylight Savings.

This all stems from the fact that M$ decided to use a hackneyed method of tracking file dates to make sure there are no ambiguous times during the "repeated hour" when DST ends in October, maintain compatibility with older FAT partitions, etc. An excellent description of what/why this is can be found at http://www.codeproject.com/datetime/dstbugs.asp

This is noteworthy because *nix platforms don't have this problem. This could introduce some hard-to-track bugs if you're trying to move scripts that track file timestamps between platforms.

I spent a fair amount of time trying to debug one of my own scripts that was suffering from this problem. I was storing file modification times in a MySQL table, then using that information to see which files had been altered since the last run of the script. After each Daylight Savings change, every single file the script saw was considered "changed" since the last run, since all the timestamps were off by +/- 3600 seconds.

This one-liner is probably one of the most incorrect fixes that could ever be devised, but it's worked flawlessly in production-grade environments... Assuming $file_date is a Unix timestamp you've just read from a file:

<?php
   
if (date('I') == 1) $file_date -= 3600;
?>

That will ensure that the timestamp you're working with is always consistently reported, regardless of whether the machine is in Daylight Savings or not.
com dot gmail at algofoogle
22-Jul-2005 04:06
Re note posted by "salisbm at hotmail dot com":

S_IFDIR is not a single-bit flag. It is a constant that relies on the "S_IFMT" bitmask. This bitmask should be applied to the "mode" parameter before comparing with any of the other "S_IF..." constants, as indicated by stat.h:

#define S_ISDIR(m)  (((m) & S_IFMT) == S_IFDIR)

That is, this approach is incorrect:

<?php
define
('S_IFDIR',040000);
if (
$mode & S_IFDIR)
{
 
/*
    incorrect!
    format could be S_IFDIR, but also
    S_IFBLK, S_IFSOCK, or S_IFWHT.
  */
}
?>

...and should instead be:

<?php
define
('S_IFMT',0170000);
define('S_IFDIR',040000);
if (
S_IFDIR == ($mode & S_IFMT)) {  /* ... */  }
?>

As pointed out by "svend at svendtofte dot com", however, there is also the "is_dir" function for this purpose, along with "is_file" and "is_link" to cover the most common format types...
mpb dot mail at gmail dot com
18-Jul-2005 01:10
If you are working with files larger than 2GB (and PHP's integer type is only 32 bits on your system) then you can try the following to get floating point sizes:

On FreeBSD:

$size = (float) exec ('stat -f %z '. escapeshellarg ($path));

On Linux:

$size = (float) exec ('stat -c %s '. escapeshellarg ($path));

(The other example that uses "ls" and "awk" does not properly escape the filename, but should work otherwise.)
mao at nospam dot com
07-Jun-2005 03:53
If you have ftp (and the related sftp) protocols disabled on your remote server, it can be hard figuring out how to 'stat' a remote file. The following works for me:

<?php 

$conn
= ssh2_connect($host, 22);
ssh2_auth_password($conn, $user, $password);
$stream = ssh2_exec($conn, "stat $fileName > $remotedest");
ssh2_scp_recv($conn, $remotedest, $localdest);
$farray = file($localdest);
print_r($farray);
?>
guillermo martinez
30-Jan-2005 08:24
stat() and SELinux,

You can have troubles to use the stat() function if the SELinux is enabled, so check the SELinux documentation or turn it off.
11-Nov-2004 05:41
If the 2GB limit is driving you crazy, you can use this complete hack.  use in place of filesize()

function file_size($file) {
  $size = filesize($file);
  if ( $size == 0)
    $size = exec("ls -l $file | awk '{print $5}'");
  return $size;
}
svend at svendtofte dot com
10-Oct-2004 01:31
To the note of how you can figure out if a file is a folder or not, there is also the handy "is_dir" function.
salisbm at hotmail dot com
12-Aug-2003 03:21
I was curious how I could tell if a file was a directory... so I found on http://www.hmug.org/man/2/stat.html the following information about the mode bits:
#define S_IFMT 0170000           /* type of file */
#define        S_IFIFO  0010000  /* named pipe (fifo) */
#define        S_IFCHR  0020000  /* character special */
#define        S_IFDIR  0040000  /* directory */
#define        S_IFBLK  0060000  /* block special */
#define        S_IFREG  0100000  /* regular */
#define        S_IFLNK  0120000  /* symbolic link */
#define        S_IFSOCK 0140000  /* socket */
#define        S_IFWHT  0160000  /* whiteout */
#define S_ISUID 0004000  /* set user id on execution */
#define S_ISGID 0002000  /* set group id on execution */
#define S_ISVTX 0001000  /* save swapped text even after use */
#define S_IRUSR 0000400  /* read permission, owner */
#define S_IWUSR 0000200  /* write permission, owner */
#define S_IXUSR 0000100  /* execute/search permission, owner */

Note that these numbers are in octal format.  Then, to check to see if the file is a directory, after calling fstat, I do:

if ($fstats[mode] & 040000)
  ... this must be a directory
ian at eiloart dot com
23-Jul-1999 06:52
Here's what the UNIX man page on stat has to say about the difference between a file change and  a file modification:

st_mtime  Time when data was last modified.  Changed by  the following  functions:   creat(),  mknod(), pipe(), utime(), and write(2).

st_ctime  Time when file status was last  changed.   Changed by  the  following  functions: chmod(), chown(), creat(), link(2), mknod(), pipe(), unlink(2), utime(), and write().

So a modification is a change in the data, whereas a change also happens if you modify file permissions and so on.

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