I just learned that, to specify file names in a portable manner, you DON'T need 'DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR' - just use '/'. This really surprised and shocked me, as until now I typed about a zillion times 'DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR' to stay platform independent - unnecessary. Don't make the same mistake.
Filesystem Functions
See Also
For related functions, see also the Directory and Program Execution sections.
For a list and explanation of the various URL wrappers that can be used as remote files, see also List of Supported Protocols/Wrappers.
Table of Contents
- basename — Returns filename component of path
- chgrp — Changes file group
- chmod — Changes file mode
- chown — Changes file owner
- clearstatcache — Clears file status cache
- copy — Copies file
- delete — See unlink or unset
- dirname — Returns directory name component of path
- disk_free_space — Returns available space in directory
- disk_total_space — Returns the total size of a directory
- diskfreespace — Alias of disk_free_space
- fclose — Closes an open file pointer
- feof — Tests for end-of-file on a file pointer
- fflush — Flushes the output to a file
- fgetc — Gets character from file pointer
- fgetcsv — Gets line from file pointer and parse for CSV fields
- fgets — Gets line from file pointer
- fgetss — Gets line from file pointer and strip HTML tags
- file_exists — Checks whether a file or directory exists
- file_get_contents — Reads entire file into a string
- file_put_contents — Write a string to a file
- file — Reads entire file into an array
- fileatime — Gets last access time of file
- filectime — Gets inode change time of file
- filegroup — Gets file group
- fileinode — Gets file inode
- filemtime — Gets file modification time
- fileowner — Gets file owner
- fileperms — Gets file permissions
- filesize — Gets file size
- filetype — Gets file type
- flock — Portable advisory file locking
- fnmatch — Match filename against a pattern
- fopen — Opens file or URL
- fpassthru — Output all remaining data on a file pointer
- fputcsv — Format line as CSV and write to file pointer
- fputs — Alias of fwrite
- fread — Binary-safe file read
- fscanf — Parses input from a file according to a format
- fseek — Seeks on a file pointer
- fstat — Gets information about a file using an open file pointer
- ftell — Tells file pointer read/write position
- ftruncate — Truncates a file to a given length
- fwrite — Binary-safe file write
- glob — Find pathnames matching a pattern
- is_dir — Tells whether the filename is a directory
- is_executable — Tells whether the filename is executable
- is_file — Tells whether the filename is a regular file
- is_link — Tells whether the filename is a symbolic link
- is_readable — Tells whether the filename is readable
- is_uploaded_file — Tells whether the file was uploaded via HTTP POST
- is_writable — Tells whether the filename is writable
- is_writeable — Alias of is_writable
- lchgrp — Changes group ownership of symlink
- lchown — Changes user ownership of symlink
- link — Create a hard link
- linkinfo — Gets information about a link
- lstat — Gives information about a file or symbolic link
- mkdir — Makes directory
- move_uploaded_file — Moves an uploaded file to a new location
- parse_ini_file — Parse a configuration file
- pathinfo — Returns information about a file path
- pclose — Closes process file pointer
- popen — Opens process file pointer
- readfile — Outputs a file
- readlink — Returns the target of a symbolic link
- realpath — Returns canonicalized absolute pathname
- rename — Renames a file or directory
- rewind — Rewind the position of a file pointer
- rmdir — Removes directory
- set_file_buffer — Alias of stream_set_write_buffer
- stat — Gives information about a file
- symlink — Creates a symbolic link
- tempnam — Create file with unique file name
- tmpfile — Creates a temporary file
- touch — Sets access and modification time of file
- umask — Changes the current umask
- unlink — Deletes a file
Filesystem Functions
Christian
18-Mar-2007 04:24
18-Mar-2007 04:24
tunnelareaten at gmail dot com
26-Feb-2005 03:27
26-Feb-2005 03:27
I made this function to search and/or display files by extension or for a string occurance in the filename. Any comments or enhancements are welcome offcourse. I'll update this function soon.
usage: list_files([string], [string], [int 1 | 0], [int 1 | 0]);
search for extension: list_files([string], [string], [0], [int 1 | 0]);
returns array: $myArray = list_files([string], [string], [0], [0]);
echo result: list_files([string], [string], [0], [1]);
search for string occurance: list_files([string], [string], [1], [int 1 | 0]);
returns array: $myArray = list_files([string], [string], [1], [0]);
echo result: list_files([string], [string], [1], [1]);
<?php
function list_files($directory, $stringSearch, $searchHandler, $outputHandler) {
$errorHandler = false;
$result = array();
if (! $directoryHandler = @opendir ($directory)) {
echo ("<pre>\nerror: directory \"$directory\" doesn't exist!\n</pre>\n");
return $errorHandler = true;
}
if ($searchHandler === 0) {
while (false !== ($fileName = @readdir ($directoryHandler))) {
if(@substr ($fileName, - @strlen ($stringSearch)) === $stringSearch) {
@array_push ($result, $fileName);
}
}
}
if ($searchHandler === 1) {
while(false !== ($fileName = @readdir ($directoryHandler))) {
if(@substr_count ($fileName, $stringSearch) > 0) {
@array_push ($result, $fileName);
}
}
}
if (($errorHandler === true) && (@count ($result) === 0)) {
echo ("<pre>\nerror: no filetype \"$fileExtension\" found!\n</pre>\n");
}
else {
sort ($result);
if ($outputHandler === 0) {
return $result;
}
if ($outputHandler === 1) {
echo ("<pre>\n");
print_r ($result);
echo ("</pre>\n");
}
}
}
?>
http://iubito.free.fr
30-Dec-2003 11:39
30-Dec-2003 11:39
Here is a function I wrote to get the relative path between 2 files or directory.
We suppose that paths are wrotten in Unix format (/ instead of windows \\)
<?php
/**
* Return the relative path between two paths / Retourne le chemin relatif entre 2 chemins
*
* If $path2 is empty, get the current directory (getcwd).
* @return string
*/
function relativePath($path1, $path2='')
{
if ($path2 == '') {
$path2 = $path1;
$path1 = getcwd();
}
//Remove starting, ending, and double / in paths
$path1 = trim($path1,'/');
$path2 = trim($path2,'/');
while (substr_count($path1, '//')) $path1 = str_replace('//', '/', $path1);
while (substr_count($path2, '//')) $path2 = str_replace('//', '/', $path2);
//create arrays
$arr1 = explode('/', $path1);
if ($arr1 == array('')) $arr1 = array();
$arr2 = explode('/', $path2);
if ($arr2 == array('')) $arr2 = array();
$size1 = count($arr1);
$size2 = count($arr2);
//now the hard part :-p
$path='';
for($i=0; $i<min($size1,$size2); $i++)
{
if ($arr1[$i] == $arr2[$i]) continue;
else $path = '../'.$path.$arr2[$i].'/';
}
if ($size1 > $size2)
for ($i = $size2; $i < $size1; $i++)
$path = '../'.$path;
else if ($size2 > $size1)
for ($i = $size1; $i < $size2; $i++)
$path .= $arr2[$i].'/';
return $path;
}
?>
Enjoy ! :-)
Gregor Mosheh
23-Aug-2003 10:23
23-Aug-2003 10:23
This function searches a directory and returns an array of all files whose filename matches the specified regular expression. It's similar in concept to the Unix find program.
function findfile($location='',$fileregex='') {
if (!$location or !is_dir($location) or !$fileregex) {
return false;
}
$matchedfiles = array();
$all = opendir($location);
while ($file = readdir($all)) {
if (is_dir($location.'/'.$file) and $file <> ".." and $file <> ".") {
$subdir_matches = findfile($location.'/'.$file,$fileregex);
$matchedfiles = array_merge($matchedfiles,$subdir_matches);
unset($file);
}
elseif (!is_dir($location.'/'.$file)) {
if (preg_match($fileregex,$file)) {
array_push($matchedfiles,$location.'/'.$file);
}
}
}
closedir($all);
unset($all);
return $matchedfiles;
}
$htmlfiles = findfile('/some/dir','/\.(htm|html)$/');
Gregor Mosheh
17-Jul-2003 03:25
17-Jul-2003 03:25
I needed a function to find disk usage for a directory and its subs, so here it is. It's kinda like the Unix du program, except it returns the usage in bytes, not blocks.
function du($location) {
if (!$location or !is_dir($location)) {
return 0;
}
$total = 0;
$all = opendir($location);
while ($file = readdir($all)) {
if (is_dir($location.'/'.$file) and $file <> ".." and $file <> ".") {
$total += du($location.'/'.$file);
unset($file);
}
elseif (!is_dir($location.'/'.$file)) {
$stats = stat($location.'/'.$file);
$total += $stats['size'];
unset($file);
}
}
closedir($all);
unset($all);
return $total;
}
print du('/some/directory');
l_domenech at yahoo dot ca
04-Jul-2003 03:25
04-Jul-2003 03:25
In the code samples of the user-contributed notes, you'll find functions that sometimes need a slash at the end of a folder path and sometimes don't.
Here's a little function to append a slash at the end of a path if there isn't one already.
function append_slash_if_none($string)
{
if (ereg ("/$", $string))
{
return $string;
}
else
{
return ereg_replace("$", "/", $string);
}
}
(Replace with a backslash if you're on Windows...)
mitra at mitra dot biz
16-May-2003 03:10
16-May-2003 03:10
Pollard@php.net contributed this in response to a question on setting these variables ...
This option *IS* settable within your PHP scripts.
Example:
<?php
ini_set('auto_detect_line_endings', true);
$contents = file('unknowntype.txt');
ini_set('auto_detect_line_endings', false);
$content2 = file('unixfile.txt');
?>
Note, with PHP 4.3 anytime Mac files are read using fgets or file you'll need to auto_detect_line_endings since \n is otherwise assumed. However, with PHP 5.0, stream_get_line() will allow you to specify what line ending character to read up to.
\\ Read a line from a MAC file
stream_get_line($fp, 4096, "\r");
\\ Read a line from a UNIX file
stream_get_line($fp, 4096, "\n");
\\ Read a line from a DOS file
stream_get_line($fp, 4096, "\r\n");
\\ Read a line up to any filesystem line ending
ini_set('auto_detect_line_endings', true); fgets($fp);
\\ You can also make up your own line ending characters:
\\ Read up to the first instance of ":"
stream_get_line($fp, 4096, ":");
regis at webstuff dot com dot br
04-Apr-2003 01:49
04-Apr-2003 01:49
Here is a useful function if you're having trouble writing raw bytes into a file.
It receives an integer and returns an array containing the ASCII values of the bytes on each index of the array.
function int2bytes($number){
$byte = $number;
$i=0;
do{
$dec_tmp = $byte;
$byte = bcdiv($byte,256,0);
$resto = $dec_tmp - (256 * $byte);
$return[] = $resto;
} while($byte >= 256);
if($byte) $return[] = $byte;
return array_reverse($return);
}
Example:
$arr = int2bytes(75832);
$arr will contain the following values:
Array
(
[0] => 1
[1] => 40
[2] => 56
)
Now, to write this data to the file, just use a fputs() with chr(), just like this:
fputs($fp,chr($arr[0]).chr($arr[1]).chr($arr[2]))
-- Regis
jdhurn at uberidx dot com
09-Mar-2003 02:18
09-Mar-2003 02:18
This is a function I use to determine if a file contains Binary information. I use this for my search engine so that it doesn't try to index files like .zip or .mp3 or any other file that doesn't contain readable information. It makes use of the Character Type Extension if it's loaded, if it's not then it uses Regular Expressions.
function is_binary($link)
{
$tmpStr = '';
@$fp = fopen($link, 'rb');
@$tmpStr = fread($fp, 256);
@fclose($fp);
if($tmpStr != '')
{
$tmpStr = str_replace(chr(10), '', $tmpStr);
$tmpStr = str_replace(chr(13), '', $tmpStr);
$tmpInt = 0;
for($i =0; $i < strlen($tmpStr); $i++)
{
if( extension_loaded('ctype') )
{
if( !ctype_print($tmpStr[$i]) )
$tmpInt++;
}
else
{
if( !eregi("[[:print:]]+", $tmpStr[$i]) )
$tmpInt++;
}
}
if($tmpInt > 5)
return(0);
else
return(1);
}
else
return(0);
}
