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2025-11-04

stat

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

stat — 给出文件的信息

说明

stat(string $filename): array|false

获取由 filename 指定的文件的统计信息。如果 filename 是符号连接，则统计信息是关于被连接文件本身的，而不是符号连接。在 PHP 7.4.0 之前，使用 Windows NTS 版本获取 size、atime、mtime 和 ctime 统计信息将从符号链接获取。

lstat() 和 stat() 相同，只除了它会返回符号连接的状态。

参数

filename: 文件的路径。

返回值

**stat()** 和 fstat() 返回格式
数字下标	关联键名	说明
0	dev	设备号 ***
1	ino	inode 号 ****
2	mode	inode 保护模式 *****
3	nlink	连接数目
4	uid	所有者的用户 id *
5	gid	所有者的组 id *
6	rdev	设备类型，如果是 inode 设备的话
7	size	文件大小的字节数
8	atime	上次访问时间（Unix 时间戳）
9	mtime	上次修改时间（Unix 时间戳）
10	ctime	上次 inodb 改变时间（Unix 时间戳）
11	blksize	文件系统 IO 的块大小 **
12	blocks	分配的 512 字节块数 **

* Windows 下总是 0。

* - 仅在支持 st_blksize 类型的系统下有效。其它系统（如 Windows）返回 -1。

*** On Windows, as of PHP 7.4.0, this is the serial number of the volume that contains the file, which is a 64-bit unsigned integer, so may overflow. Previously, it was the numeric representation of the drive letter (e.g. 2 for C:) for stat(), and 0 for lstat().

**** 在 Windows 上，自 PHP 7.4.0 起，这是跟文件相关的标识符，因为是64位 unsigned 整数，因此可能会溢出。之前始终为 0。

***** On Windows, the writable permission bit is set according to the read-only file attribute, and the same value is reported for all users, group and owner. The ACL is not taken into account, contrary to is_writable().

mode 的值包含几个函数读取到的信息。当用八进制编写时，从右开始，前三位由 chmod() 返回。PHP 忽略下一个数字。接下来的两位数字表示文件类型：

**`mode` 文件类型**
八进制表示 `mode`	含义
`0140000`	socket
`0120000`	link
`0100000`	常规文件
`0060000`	块设备
`0040000`	目录
`0020000`	字符设备
`0010000`	fifo

例如普通文件可能是 0100644，目录可能是 0040755。

如果出错，stat() 返回 false。

注意: 因为 PHP 的整数类型是有符号整型而且很多平台使用 32 位整型，对 2GB 以上的文件，一些文件系统函数可能返回无法预期的结果。

错误／异常

错误时会产生 E_WARNING 级别的错误。

更新日志

版本	说明
7.4.0	On Windows, the device number is now the serial number of the volume that contains the file, and the inode number is the identifier associated with the file.
7.4.0	The `size`, `atime`, `mtime` and `ctime` statistics of symlinks are always those of the target. This was previously not the case for NTS builds on Windows.

示例

示例 #1 stat() 例子

<?php
/* Get file stat */
$stat = stat('C:\php\php.exe');

/*
 * Print file access time, this is the same 
 * as calling fileatime()
 */
echo 'Access time: ' . $stat['atime'];

/*
 * Print file modification time, this is the 
 * same as calling filemtime()
 */
echo 'Modification time: ' . $stat['mtime'];

/* Print the device number */
echo 'Device number: ' . $stat['dev'];
?>

示例 #2 Using stat() information together with touch()

<?php
/* Get file stat */
$stat = stat('C:\php\php.exe');

/* Did we failed to get stat information? */
if (!$stat) {
    echo 'stat() call failed...';
} else {
/*
     * We want the access time to be 1 week 
     * after the current access time.
     */
$atime = $stat['atime'] + 604800;

/* Touch the file */
if (!touch('some_file.txt', time(), $atime)) {
        echo 'Failed to touch file...';
    } else {
        echo 'touch() returned success...';
    }
}
?>

注释

注意:
注意：不同文件系统对时间的判断方法可能是不相同的。

注意: 此函数的结果会被缓存。参见 clearstatcache() 以获得更多细节。

小技巧

自 PHP 5.0.0 起, 此函数也用于某些 URL 包装器。请参见支持的协议和封装协议以获得支持 stat() 系列函数功能的包装器列表。

参见

lstat() - 给出一个文件或符号连接的信息
fstat() - 通过已打开的文件指针取得文件信息
filemtime() - 取得文件修改时间
filegroup() - 取得文件的组
SplFileInfo

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webmaster at askapache dot com ¶

16 years ago

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webmaster at askapache dot com ¶

11 years ago

On GNU/Linux you can retrieve the number of currently running processes on the machine by doing a stat for hard links on the '/proc' directory like so:

$ stat -c '%h' /proc
118

You can do the same thing in php by doing a stat on /proc and grabbing the [3] 'nlink' - number of links in the returned array.

Here is the function I'm using, it does a clearstatcache() when called more than once.

<?php

/**
 * Returns the number of running processes
 *
 * @link http://php.net/clearstatcache
 * @link http://php.net/stat  Description of stat syntax.
 * @author http://www.askapache.com/php/get-number-running-proccesses.html
 * @return int
 */
function get_process_count() {
  static $ver, $runs = 0;

// check if php version supports clearstatcache params, but only check once
if ( is_null( $ver ) )
$ver = version_compare( PHP_VERSION, '5.3.0', '>=' );

// Only call clearstatcache() if function called more than once */
if ( $runs++ > 0 ) { // checks if $runs > 0, then increments $runs by one.

    // if php version is >= 5.3.0
if ( $ver ) {
clearstatcache( true, '/proc' );
    } else {
// if php version is < 5.3.0
clearstatcache();
    }
  }

$stat = stat( '/proc' );

// if stat succeeds and nlink value is present return it, otherwise return 0
return ( ( false !== $stat && isset( $stat[3] ) ) ? $stat[3] : 0 );
}

?>

Example #1 get_process_count() example

<?php
$num_procs = get_process_count();
var_dump( $num_procs );
?>

The above example will output:

int(118)

Which is the number of processes that were running.

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admin at smitelli dot com ¶

19 years ago

There's an important (yet little-known) problem with file dates on Windows and Daylight Savings. This affects the 'atime' and 'mtime' elements returned by stat(), and it also affects other filesystem-related functions such as fileatime() and filemtime().

During the winter months (when Daylight Savings isn't in effect), Windows will report a certain timestamp for a given file. However, when summer comes and Daylight Savings starts, Windows will report a DIFFERENT timestamp! Even if the file hasn't been altered at all, Windows will shift every timestamp it reads forward one full hour during Daylight Savings.

This all stems from the fact that M$ decided to use a hackneyed method of tracking file dates to make sure there are no ambiguous times during the "repeated hour" when DST ends in October, maintain compatibility with older FAT partitions, etc. An excellent description of what/why this is can be found at http://www.codeproject.com/datetime/dstbugs.asp

This is noteworthy because *nix platforms don't have this problem. This could introduce some hard-to-track bugs if you're trying to move scripts that track file timestamps between platforms.

I spent a fair amount of time trying to debug one of my own scripts that was suffering from this problem. I was storing file modification times in a MySQL table, then using that information to see which files had been altered since the last run of the script. After each Daylight Savings change, every single file the script saw was considered "changed" since the last run, since all the timestamps were off by +/- 3600 seconds.

This one-liner is probably one of the most incorrect fixes that could ever be devised, but it's worked flawlessly in production-grade environments... Assuming $file_date is a Unix timestamp you've just read from a file:

<?php
if (date('I') == 1) $file_date -= 3600;
?>

That will ensure that the timestamp you're working with is always consistently reported, regardless of whether the machine is in Daylight Savings or not.

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mail4rico at gmail dot com ¶

16 years ago

In response to the note whose first line is:
Re note posted by "admin at smitelli dot com"

I believe you have the conversion backwards. You should add an hour to filemtime if the system is in DST and the file is not. Conversely, you should subtract an hour if the file time is DST and the current OS time is not.

Here's a simplified, corrected version:
<?php
function getmodtime($file) { //returns the time a file was modified.
$mtime = filemtime($file);
//date('I') returns 1 if DST is on and 0 if off.
$diff = date('I')-date('I', $mtime);
//diff =  0 if file-time and os-time are both in the same DST setting
        //diff =  1 if os is DST and file is not
        //diff = -1 if file is DST and os is not
return $mtime + $diff*3600;
    }
?>
Here's a test:
<?php
//create two dummy files:
$file0 = 'file1.txt';
$file1 = 'file2.txt';
file_put_contents($file0, '');
file_put_contents($file1, '');

$time0=strtotime('Jan 1 2008 10:00'); echo 'Date0 (ST): ' . date(DATE_COOKIE, $time0)."\n";
$time1=strtotime('Aug 1 2008 10:00'); echo 'Date1 (DT): ' . date(DATE_COOKIE, $time1)."\n";
touch($file0, $time0); //set file0 to Winter (Non-DST)
touch($file1, $time1); //set file1 to Summer (DST)

$ftime0 = filemtime($file0);
$ftime1 = filemtime($file1);
    echo "\nUncorrected: \n";
    echo 'File 0: ' . ($ftime0-$time0) ."\n";
    echo 'File 1: ' . ($ftime1-$time1) ."\n";
//if your system adjusts for DST, then _one_ of the above should be 3600 or -3600, depending on the time of year

$ftime0 = getmodtime($file0); //use filemtime correction
$ftime1 = getmodtime($file1); //use filemtime correction
echo "\nCorrected: \n";
    echo 'File 0: ' . ($ftime0-$time0) ."\n";
    echo 'File 1: ' . ($ftime1-$time1) ."\n";
//both of the corrected values output should be 0.
?>

Output:
------------------------------
(when run in summer)
------------------------------
Date0 (ST): Tuesday, 01-Jan-08 10:00:00 EST
Date1 (DT): Friday, 01-Aug-08 10:00:00 EDT

Uncorrected: 
File 0: -3600
File 1: 0

Corrected: 
File 0: 0
File 1: 0
------------------------------
(when run in winter--dates omitted)
------------------------------
Uncorrected: 
File 0: 0
File 1: 3600

Corrected: 
File 0: 0
File 1: 0

In response to Re note posted by "admin at smitelli dot com",  your version below gives the following output when substituted into my test:
------------------------------
(when run in summer--dates omitted)
------------------------------
Uncorrected: 
File 0: -3600
File 1: 0

Corrected: 
File 0: -7200
File 1: 0
------------------------------
You can see that the operation is the opposite of what it should be.

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com dot gmail at algofoogle ¶

19 years ago

Re note posted by "salisbm at hotmail dot com":

S_IFDIR is not a single-bit flag. It is a constant that relies on the "S_IFMT" bitmask. This bitmask should be applied to the "mode" parameter before comparing with any of the other "S_IF..." constants, as indicated by stat.h:

#define S_ISDIR(m)  (((m) & S_IFMT) == S_IFDIR)

That is, this approach is incorrect:

<?php
define('S_IFDIR',040000);
if ($mode & S_IFDIR)
{
/*
    incorrect!
    format could be S_IFDIR, but also
    S_IFBLK, S_IFSOCK, or S_IFWHT.
  */
}
?>

...and should instead be:

<?php
define('S_IFMT',0170000);
define('S_IFDIR',040000);
if (S_IFDIR == ($mode & S_IFMT)) {  /* ... */  }
?>

As pointed out by "svend at svendtofte dot com", however, there is also the "is_dir" function for this purpose, along with "is_file" and "is_link" to cover the most common format types...

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salisbm at hotmail dot com ¶

21 years ago

I was curious how I could tell if a file was a directory... so I found on http://www.hmug.org/man/2/stat.html the following information about the mode bits:
#define S_IFMT 0170000           /* type of file */
#define        S_IFIFO  0010000  /* named pipe (fifo) */
#define        S_IFCHR  0020000  /* character special */
#define        S_IFDIR  0040000  /* directory */
#define        S_IFBLK  0060000  /* block special */
#define        S_IFREG  0100000  /* regular */
#define        S_IFLNK  0120000  /* symbolic link */
#define        S_IFSOCK 0140000  /* socket */
#define        S_IFWHT  0160000  /* whiteout */
#define S_ISUID 0004000  /* set user id on execution */
#define S_ISGID 0002000  /* set group id on execution */
#define S_ISVTX 0001000  /* save swapped text even after use */
#define S_IRUSR 0000400  /* read permission, owner */
#define S_IWUSR 0000200  /* write permission, owner */
#define S_IXUSR 0000100  /* execute/search permission, owner */

Note that these numbers are in octal format.  Then, to check to see if the file is a directory, after calling fstat, I do:

if ($fstats[mode] & 040000)
  ... this must be a directory

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ian at eiloart dot com ¶

25 years ago

Here's what the UNIX man page on stat has to say about the difference between a file change and  a file modification:


st_mtime  Time when data was last modified.  Changed by  the following  functions:   creat(),  mknod(), pipe(), utime(), and write(2).


st_ctime  Time when file status was last  changed.   Changed by  the  following  functions: chmod(), chown(), creat(), link(2), mknod(), pipe(), unlink(2), utime(), and write().


So a modification is a change in the data, whereas a change also happens if you modify file permissions and so on.

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JulieC ¶

18 years ago

The dir_size function provided by "marting.dc AT gmail.com" works great, except the $mas variable is not initialized.  Add:

   $mas = 0;

before the while() loop.

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marting.dc AT gmail.com ¶

19 years ago

If you want to know a directory size, this function will help you:


<?php

function dir_size($dir)

{

$handle = opendir($dir);


    while ($file = readdir($handle)) {

        if ($file != '..' && $file != '.' && !is_dir($dir.'/'.$file)) {

$mas += filesize($dir.'/'.$file);

            } else if (is_dir($dir.'/'.$file) && $file != '..' && $file != '.') {

$mas += dir_size($dir.'/'.$file);

        }

    }

    return $mas;

}

echo dir_size('DIRECTORIO').' Bytes';

?>

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mao at nospam dot com ¶

19 years ago

If you have ftp (and the related sftp) protocols disabled on your remote server, it can be hard figuring out how to 'stat' a remote file. The following works for me:

<?php  

$conn = ssh2_connect($host, 22);
ssh2_auth_password($conn, $user, $password);
$stream = ssh2_exec($conn, "stat $fileName > $remotedest");
ssh2_scp_recv($conn, $remotedest, $localdest);
$farray = file($localdest);
print_r($farray);
?>

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digitalaudiorock at hotmail dot com ¶

16 years ago

Regarding the stat() on files larger than 2GB on 32 bit systems not working, note that the behavior appears to differ between Linux and Windows.  Under Windows there's so way to know whether or not this failed.

It's been my experience that under Linux, performing a stat() on files that are too large for the integer size generates a warning and returns false.  However under Windows it silently truncates the high order bits of the size resulting in an incorrect number.  The only way you'd ever know it failed is in the event that the truncation happened to leave the sign bit on resulting in a negative size.  That is, there is _no_ reliable way to know it failed.

This is true of filesize() as well.

Tom

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carlos [at] encore-lab [dot] com ¶

10 years ago

stat() may not work on mounted CIFS' in 32 bit systems if you do not specify the option noserverino when mounting. E.g:

mount -t cifs -o user="user",password="password",noserverino //example.local/share /mnt/mount-point

Other functions based on stat() data such as file time functions and is_dir() are affected the same way.

This happens because if you do not specify the option noserverino the remote inode may be 64 bit-based and thus the local system cannot handle it.

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svend at svendtofte dot com ¶

20 years ago

To the note of how you can figure out if a file is a folder or not, there is also the handy "is_dir" function.

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Ray.Paseur sometimes uses Gmail ¶

4 years ago

A good explanation of the "mode" bits is given here:
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fileperms.php

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Hellhound ¶

16 years ago

To ignore index number or name specifics.. use:

list($dev, $ino, $mode, $nlink, $uid, $gid, $rdev, $size, $atime, $mtime, $ctime, $blksize, $blocks)
         = lstat($directory_element);

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Anonymous ¶

18 years ago

Re note posted by "admin at smitelli dot com"

I'm not sure how that can work all year round since you have to modify both opposing inside and outside DST based on the actual files themselves, as well as the current DST setting for the system.

e.g. using filemtime, same thing for stat.

<?php

$mtime = filemtime($file);

if (date('I') == 1) {
// Win DST is enabled, adjust standard time 
    // files back to 'real' file UTC.
if (date('I', $mtime) == 0) {
$mtime -= 3600;
    }
} else {
// Win DST is disabled, adjust daylight time 
    // files forward to 'real' file UTC.
if (date('I', $mtime) == 1) {
$mtime += 3600;
    }
}

echo gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s', $mtime);

?>

Just another example of why 'not' to use windows in a server room.

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antonixyz at gmx dot net ¶

16 years ago

<?php

$stat = stat($filepath);

$mode = $stat[2];

?>

is identical to:

<?php $mode = fileperms($filepath); ?>



at least on my linux box.

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Anonymous ¶

20 years ago

If the 2GB limit is driving you crazy, you can use this complete hack.  use in place of filesize()

function file_size($file) {
  $size = filesize($file);
  if ( $size == 0)
    $size = exec("ls -l $file | awk '{print $5}'");
  return $size;
}

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