<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >filetype</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Filesystem functions" HREF="ref.filesystem.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="filesize" HREF="function.filesize.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="flock" HREF="function.flock.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.filesize.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.flock.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.filetype" ></A >filetype</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN25762" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P >filetype -- Gets file type</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN25765" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >string <B CLASS="methodname" >filetype</B > ( string filename)<BR ></BR ><P > Returns the type of the file. Possible values are fifo, char, dir, block, link, file, and unknown. </P ><P > Returns <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT > if an error occurs. <B CLASS="function" >filetype()</B > will also produce an <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >E_NOTICE</B ></TT > message if the stat call fails or if the file type is unknown. </P ><P > The results of this function are cached. See <A HREF="function.clearstatcache.html" ><B CLASS="function" >clearstatcache()</B ></A > for more details. </P ><P > This function will not work on <A HREF="features.remote-files.html" >remote files</A >; the file to be examined must be accessible via the server's filesystem. </P ><P > See also: <A HREF="function.is-dir.html" ><B CLASS="function" >is_dir()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.is-file.html" ><B CLASS="function" >is_file()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.is-link.html" ><B CLASS="function" >is_link()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.file-exists.html" ><B CLASS="function" >file_exists()</B ></A >, and <A HREF="function.stat.html" ><B CLASS="function" >stat()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.filesize.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.flock.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >filesize</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.filesystem.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >flock</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >