PHP has a stat() function that returns an array containing the meta information of a file such as owner, size, time of last access, last modification or last change. It’s basically the stat command under Linux that returns and shows the file system meta information of any file or directory:
stat myfile.txt
Which returns:
File: `myfile.txt'
Size: 1707 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: 811h/2065d Inode: 96909802 Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: (1354144/ voir) Gid: (255747/pg940032)
Access: 2010-02-16 08:00:00.000000000 -0800
Modify: 2010-02-18 04:16:51.000000000 -0800
Change: 2010-02-18 04:16:51.000000000 -0800
To get the meta information of the current working directory:
stat .
Which returns:
File: `.'
Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory
Device: 811h/2065d Inode: 96904945 Links: 4
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: (1354144/ voir) Gid: (255747/pg940032)
Access: 2009-08-31 17:07:16.000000000 -0700
Modify: 2009-12-20 05:18:57.000000000 -0800
Change: 2009-12-20 05:18:57.000000000 -0800
stat myfile.txt
Which returns:
File: `myfile.txt'
Size: 1707 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: 811h/2065d Inode: 96909802 Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: (1354144/ voir) Gid: (255747/pg940032)
Access: 2010-02-16 08:00:00.000000000 -0800
Modify: 2010-02-18 04:16:51.000000000 -0800
Change: 2010-02-18 04:16:51.000000000 -0800
To get the meta information of the current working directory:
stat .
Which returns:
File: `.'
Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory
Device: 811h/2065d Inode: 96904945 Links: 4
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: (1354144/ voir) Gid: (255747/pg940032)
Access: 2009-08-31 17:07:16.000000000 -0700
Modify: 2009-12-20 05:18:57.000000000 -0800
Change: 2009-12-20 05:18:57.000000000 -0800