<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Gets file type</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="splfileinfo.getsize.html">SplFileInfo::getSize</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="splfileinfo.isdir.html">SplFileInfo::isDir</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="class.splfileinfo.html">SplFileInfo</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="splfileinfo.gettype" class="refentry"> <div class="refnamediv"> <h1 class="refname">SplFileInfo::getType</h1> <p class="verinfo">(PHP 5 >= 5.1.2)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">SplFileInfo::getType</span> — <span class="dc-title">Gets file type</span></p> </div> <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-splfileinfo.gettype-description"> <h3 class="title">Description</h3> <div class="methodsynopsis dc-description"> <span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>SplFileInfo::getType</strong></span> ( <span class="methodparam">void</span> )</div> <p class="para rdfs-comment"> Returns the type of the file referenced. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-splfileinfo.gettype-parameters"> <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3> <p class="para">This function has no parameters.</p> </div> <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-splfileinfo.gettype-returnvalues"> <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3> <p class="para"> A <span class="type"><a href="language.types.string.html" class="type string">string</a></span> representing the type of the entry. May be one of <em>file</em>, <em>link</em>, or <em>dir</em> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 errors" id="refsect1-splfileinfo.gettype-errors"> <h3 class="title">Errors/Exceptions</h3> <p class="para"> Throws a <a href="class.runtimeexception.html" class="classname">RuntimeException</a> on error. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-splfileinfo.gettype-examples"> <h3 class="title">Examples</h3> <p class="para"> <div class="example" id="example-3936"> <p><strong>Example #1 <span class="function"><strong>SplFileInfo::getType()</strong></span> example</strong></p> <div class="example-contents"> <div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000"> <span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /><br />$info </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">SplFileInfo</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">__FILE__</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br />echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$info</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">getType</span><span style="color: #007700">().</span><span style="color: #0000BB">PHP_EOL</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$info </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">SplFileInfo</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">dirname</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">__FILE__</span><span style="color: #007700">));<br />echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$info</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">getType</span><span style="color: #007700">();<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span> </span> </code></div> </div> <div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output something similar to:</p></div> <div class="example-contents screen"> <div class="cdata"><pre> file dir </pre></div> </div> </div> </p> </div> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="splfileinfo.getsize.html">SplFileInfo::getSize</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="splfileinfo.isdir.html">SplFileInfo::isDir</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="class.splfileinfo.html">SplFileInfo</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>