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PHP Filesystem Functions

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PHP Filesystem Introduction

The filesystem functions allow you to access and manipulate the filesystem.

Installation
The filesystem functions are part of the PHP core. There is no installation needed to use these
functions.

Unix / Windows Compatibility

When specifying a path on Unix platforms, a forward slash (/) is used as directory separator.

On Windows platforms, both forward slash (/) and backslash (\) can be used.

Runtime Configuration
The behavior of the filesystem functions is affected by settings in php.ini.

Name Default Description Changeable

allow_url_fopen "1" Allows fopen()-type functions to PHP_INI_SYSTEM

 work with URLs
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allow_url_include "0" (available since PHP 5.2) PHP_INI_SYSTEM

user_agent NULL Defines the user agent for PHP to PHP_INI_ALL

send (available since PHP 4.3)

default_socket_timeout "60" Sets the default timeout, in PHP_INI_ALL

seconds, for socket based streams
(available since PHP 4.3)

from "" Defines the email address to be PHP_INI_ALL

used on unauthenticated FTP
connections and in the From header
for HTTP connections when using
ftp and http wrappers

auto_detect_line_endings "0" When set to "1", PHP will examine PHP_INI_ALL

the data read by fgets() and file() to
see if it is using Unix, MS-Dos or
Mac line-ending characters
(available since PHP 4.3)

sys_temp_dir "" (available since PHP 5.5) PHP_INI_SYSTEM

PHP Filesystem Functions

Function Description
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basename() CSS Returns
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chgrp() Changes the file group

chmod() Changes the file mode

chown() Changes the file owner

clearstatcache() Clears the file status cache

copy() Copies a file

delete() See unlink()

dirname() Returns the directory name component of a path

disk_free_space() Returns the free space of a filesystem or disk

disk_total_space() Returns the total size of a filesystem or disk

diskfreespace() Alias of disk_free_space()

fclose() Closes an open file

feof() Checks if the "end-of-file" (EOF) has been reached for an open file

fflush() Flushes buffered output to an open file

fgetc() Returns a single character from an open file

fgetcsv() Returns a line from an open CSV file

fgets() Returns a line from an open file

fgetss() Deprecated from PHP 7.3. Returns a line from an open file -
stripped from HTML and PHP tags

file() Reads a file into an array

file_exists() Checks whether or not a file or directory exists

file_get_contents() Reads a file into a string

file_put_contents() Writes data to a file

fileatime() Returns the last access time of a file

filectime() Returns the last change time of a file

filegroup() Returns the group ID of a file

fileinode() Returns the inode number of a file

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fileowner() Returns the user ID (owner) of a file

fileperms() Returns the file's permissions

filesize() Returns the file size

filetype() Returns the file type

flock() Locks or releases a file

fnmatch() Matches a filename or string against a specified pattern

fopen() Opens a file or URL

fpassthru() Reads from the current position in a file - until EOF, and writes the
result to the output buffer

fputcsv() Formats a line as CSV and writes it to an open file

fputs() Alias of fwrite()

fread() Reads from an open file (binary-safe)

fscanf() Parses input from an open file according to a specified format

fseek() Seeks in an open file

fstat() Returns information about an open file

ftell() Returns the current position in an open file

ftruncate() Truncates an open file to a specified length

fwrite() Writes to an open file (binary-safe)

glob() Returns an array of filenames / directories matching a specified

pattern

is_dir() Checks whether a file is a directory

is_executable() Checks whether a file is executable

is_file() Checks whether a file is a regular file

is_link() Checks whether a file is a link

is_readable() Checks whether a file is readable

is_uploaded_file() Checks whether a file was uploaded via HTTP POST

 is_writable() Checks whether a file is writable
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is_writeable() Alias of is_writable()

lchgrp() Changes the group ownership of a symbolic link

lchown() Changes the user ownership of a symbolic link

link() Creates a hard link

linkinfo() Returns information about a hard link

lstat() Returns information about a file or symbolic link

mkdir() Creates a directory

move_uploaded_file() Moves an uploaded file to a new location

parse_ini_file() Parses a configuration file

parse_ini_string() Parses a configuration string

pathinfo() Returns information about a file path

pclose() Closes a pipe opened by popen()

popen() Opens a pipe

readfile() Reads a file and writes it to the output buffer

readlink() Returns the target of a symbolic link

realpath() Returns the absolute pathname

realpath_cache_get() Returns realpath cache entries

realpath_cache_size() Returns realpath cache size

rename() Renames a file or directory

rewind() Rewinds a file pointer

rmdir() Removes an empty directory

set_file_buffer() Alias of stream_set_write_buffer(). Sets the buffer size for write

operations on the given file

stat() Returns information about a file

symlink() Creates a symbolic link

tempnam() Creates a unique temporary file

 tmpfile() Creates a unique temporary file
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touch() Sets access and modification time of a file

umask() Changes file permissions for files

unlink() Deletes a file

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