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; Returns an array with the statistics of the file with the following elements: device inode inode protection mode number of links user id of owner group id owner device type if inode device * size in bytes time of last access time of last modification time of last change blocksize for filesystem I/O * number of blocks allocated * - only valid on systems supporting the st_blksize type--other systems (i.e. Windows) return -1. ¬e.clearstatcache; ¬e.no-remote; See also lstat, filemtime, and filegroup.