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  <refentry id="function.stat">
   <refnamediv>
    <refname>stat</refname>
    <refpurpose>Gives information about a file</refpurpose>
   </refnamediv>
   <refsect1>
    <title>Description</title>
     <methodsynopsis>
      <type>array</type><methodname>stat</methodname>
      <methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>filename</parameter></methodparam>
     </methodsynopsis>
    <para>
     Gathers the statistics of the file named by
     <parameter>filename</parameter>.  If <parameter>filename</parameter>
     is a symbolic link, statistics are from the file itself, not the
     symlink.  <function>lstat</function> is identical to <function>
     stat</function> except it would instead be based off the symlinks 
     status.
    </para>
    <para>
     In case of error, <function>stat</function> returns &false;.  It also
     will throw a warning.
    </para>
    <para>
     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:
    </para>
    <para>
     <table>
      <title><function>stat</function> and <function>fstat</function> result
       format</title>
      <tgroup cols="3">
       <thead>
        <row>
         <entry>Numeric</entry>
         <entry>Associative (since PHP 4.0.6)</entry>
         <entry>Description</entry>
        </row>
       </thead>
       <tbody>
        <row>
         <entry>0</entry>
         <entry>dev</entry>
         <entry>device number</entry>
        </row>
        <row>
         <entry>1</entry>
         <entry>ino</entry>
         <entry>inode number</entry>
        </row>
        <row>
         <entry>2</entry>
         <entry>mode</entry>
         <entry>inode protection mode</entry>
        </row>
        <row>
         <entry>3</entry>
         <entry>nlink</entry>
         <entry>number of links</entry>
        </row>
        <row>
         <entry>4</entry>
         <entry>uid</entry>
         <entry>userid of owner</entry>
        </row>
        <row>
         <entry>5</entry>
         <entry>gid</entry>
         <entry>groupid of owner</entry>
        </row>
        <row>
         <entry>6</entry>
         <entry>rdev</entry>
         <entry>device type, if inode device *</entry>
        </row>
        <row>
         <entry>7</entry>
         <entry>size</entry>
         <entry>size in bytes</entry>
        </row>
        <row>
         <entry>8</entry>
         <entry>atime</entry>
         <entry>time of last access (Unix timestamp)</entry>
        </row>
        <row>
         <entry>9</entry>
         <entry>mtime</entry>
         <entry>time of last modification (Unix timestamp)</entry>
        </row>
        <row>
         <entry>10</entry>
         <entry>ctime</entry>
         <entry>time of last inode change (Unix timestamp)</entry>
        </row>
        <row>
         <entry>11</entry>
         <entry>blksize</entry>
         <entry>blocksize of filesystem IO *</entry>
        </row>
        <row>
         <entry>12</entry>
         <entry>blocks</entry>
         <entry>number of blocks allocated</entry>
        </row>

       </tbody>
      </tgroup>
     </table>

     * Only valid on systems supporting the st_blksize type - other
     systems (e.g. Windows) return -1.
    </para>
    
    &note.clearstatcache;

    &tip.fopen-wrapper.stat;
    
    <para>
     See also <function>lstat</function>,
     <function>fstat</function>,
     <function>filemtime</function>, and
     <function>filegroup</function>.
    </para>
   </refsect1>
  </refentry>

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