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PHP function lstat()

Gives information about a file or symbolic link

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September 11, 2019

Availability in PHP 4.0

Gives information about a file or symbolic link

Parameters

Parameter Data type Default value Note
$filename string not Path to a file or a symbolic link.

Return values

array

See the manual page for stat for information on the structure of the array that lstat returns. This function is identical to the stat function except that if the filename parameter is a symbolic link, the status of the symbolic link is returned, not the status of the file pointed to by the symbolic link.

Other resources

Official lstat documentation

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