Filesystem Functions

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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