<!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 the target of a link</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="splfileinfo.getinode.html">SplFileInfo::getInode</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="splfileinfo.getmtime.html">SplFileInfo::getMTime</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.getlinktarget" class="refentry"> <div class="refnamediv"> <h1 class="refname">SplFileInfo::getLinkTarget</h1> <p class="verinfo">(PHP 5 >= 5.2.2)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">SplFileInfo::getLinkTarget</span> — <span class="dc-title">Gets the target of a link</span></p> </div> <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-splfileinfo.getlinktarget-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::getLinkTarget</strong></span> ( <span class="methodparam">void</span> )</div> <p class="para rdfs-comment"> Gets the target of a filesystem link. </p> <blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>: <p class="para"> The target may not be the real path on the filesystem. Use <span class="methodname"><a href="splfileinfo.getrealpath.html" class="methodname">SplFileInfo::getRealPath()</a></span> to determine the true path on the filesystem. </p> </p></blockquote> </div> <div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-splfileinfo.getlinktarget-parameters"> <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3> <p class="para">This function has no parameters.</p> </div> <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-splfileinfo.getlinktarget-returnvalues"> <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3> <p class="para"> Returns the target of the filesystem link. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 errors" id="refsect1-splfileinfo.getlinktarget-errors"> <h3 class="title">Errors/Exceptions</h3> <p class="para"> Throws <a href="class.runtimeexception.html" class="classname">RuntimeException</a> on error. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-splfileinfo.getlinktarget-examples"> <h3 class="title">Examples</h3> <p class="para"> <div class="example" id="example-3929"> <p><strong>Example #1 <span class="function"><strong>SplFileInfo::getLinkTarget()</strong></span> example</strong></p> <div class="example-contents"> <div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000"> <span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br />$info </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">SplFileInfo</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'/Users/bbieber/workspace'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br />if (</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$info</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">isLink</span><span style="color: #007700">()) {<br /> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">var_dump</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$info</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">getLinkTarget</span><span style="color: #007700">());<br /> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">var_dump</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$info</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">getRealPath</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> string(19) "Documents/workspace" string(34) "/Users/bbieber/Documents/workspace" </pre></div> </div> </div> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-splfileinfo.getlinktarget-seealso"> <h3 class="title">See Also</h3> <p class="para"> <ul class="simplelist"> <li class="member"> <span class="methodname"><a href="splfileinfo.islink.html" class="methodname" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">SplFileInfo::isLink()</a> - Tells if the file is a link</span></li> <li class="member"> <span class="methodname"><a href="splfileinfo.getrealpath.html" class="methodname" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">SplFileInfo::getRealPath()</a> - Gets absolute path to file</span></li> </ul> </p> </div> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="splfileinfo.getinode.html">SplFileInfo::getInode</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="splfileinfo.getmtime.html">SplFileInfo::getMTime</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>