stat Gives information about a file &reftitle.description; 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. &reftitle.parameters; filename Path to the file. &reftitle.returnvalues; 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 ** * On Windows this will always be 0. ** Only valid on systems supporting the st_blksize type - other systems (e.g. Windows) return -1. In case of error, stat returns &false;. &reftitle.errors; Upon failure, an E_WARNING is emitted. &reftitle.changelog; &Version; &Description; 4.0.6 In addition to returning these attributes in a numeric array, they can be accessed with associative indices, as noted next to each parameter &reftitle.notes; ¬e.filesystem-time-res; ¬e.clearstatcache; &tip.fopen-wrapper.stat; &reftitle.seealso; lstat fstat filemtime filegroup