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> (PHP 3>= 3.0.4, PHP 4 )</P
>lstat -- Gives information about a file or symbolic link</DIV
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>Description</H2
>array <B
CLASS="methodname"
>lstat</B
> ( string filename)<BR
></BR
><P
> Gathers the statistics of the file or symbolic link named by
filename. This function is identical to the
<A
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><B
CLASS="function"
>stat()</B
></A
> function except that if the
<TT
CLASS="parameter"
><I
>filename</I
></TT
> parameter is a symbolic link, the
status of the symbolic link is returned, not the status of the
file pointed to by the symbolic link.
</P
><P
> Returns an array with the statistics of the file with the
following elements:
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><LI
><P
>device</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>inode</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>inode protection mode</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>number of links</P
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>user id of owner</P
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>group id owner</P
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>device type if inode device *</P
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>size in bytes</P
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>time of last access</P
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>time of last modification</P
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><LI
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>time of last change</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>blocksize for filesystem I/O *</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>number of blocks allocated</P
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>
* - only valid on systems supporting the st_blksize type--other
systems (i.e. Windows) return -1.
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> <B
CLASS="function"
>lstat()</B
> cannot be used on <A
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>remote files</A
>.
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> The results of this function are cached. See
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