stat Gives information about a file arraystat stringfilename Gathers the statistics of the file named by filename. If filename is a symbolic link, statistics are from the file itself, not the symlink. lstat is identical to stat except it would instead be based off the symlinks status. In case of error, stat returns &false;. It also will throw a warning. Returns an array with the statistics of the file with the following elements. This array is zero-based. In addition to returning these attributes in a numeric array, they can be accessed with associative indices, as noted next to each parameter; this is available since PHP 4.0.6: Numeric Associative (since PHP 4.0.6) Description 0 dev device number 1 ino inode number 2 mode inode protection mode 3 nlink number of links 4 uid userid of owner 5 gid groupid of owner 6 rdev device type, if inode device * 7 size size in bytes 8 atime time of last access (Unix timestamp) 9 mtime time of last modification (Unix timestamp) 10 ctime time of last inode change (Unix timestamp) 11 blksize blocksize of filesystem IO * 12 blocks number of blocks allocated * - only valid on systems supporting the st_blksize type--other systems (i.e. Windows) return -1. ¬e.clearstatcache; &tip.fopen-wrapper.stat; See also lstat, fstat, filemtime, and filegroup.