(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
filetype — Lê o tipo do arquivo
filenameCaminho até o arquivo.
Retorna o tipo do arquivo. Os valores possíveis são fifo, char, dir, block, link, file, socket e unknown (desconhecido).
Retorna false se ocorrer algum erro. filetype() também
produzirá uma mensagem E_NOTICE se a chamada stat
falhar ou se o tipo do arquivo for desconhecido.
Em caso de falha, um E_WARNING será emitido.
Exemplo #1 Exemplo de filetype()
<?php
echo filetype('/etc/passwd');
echo "\n";
echo filetype('/etc/');
?>O exemplo acima produzirá:
file dir
Nota: Os resultados desta função são armazenados em cache. Consulte a função clearstatcache() para mais detalhes.
A partir do PHP 5.0.0, esta função também pode ser usada com alguns wrappers URL. Consulte os Protocolos e empacotadores suportados para determinar quais wrappers suportam a família de funções stat().
There are 7 values that can be returned. Here is a list of them and what each one means
block: block special device
char: character special device
dir: directory
fifo: FIFO (named pipe)
file: regular file
link: symbolic link
unknown: unknown file typefiletype() does not work for files >=2GB on x86 Linux. You can use stat as a workarround:
$type=trim(`stat -c%F $file`);
Note that stat returns diffenerent strings ("regular file","directory",...)I use the CLI version of PHP on Windows Vista. Here's how to determine if a file is marked "hidden" by NTFS:
<?php
function is_hidden_file($fn) {
$attr = trim(exec('FOR %A IN ("'.$fn.'") DO @ECHO %~aA'));
if($attr[3] === 'h')
return true;
return false;
}
?>
Changing <?php if($attr[3] === 'h') ?> to <?php if($attr[4] === 's') ?> will check for system files.
This should work on any Windows OS that provides DOS shell commands.Putting @ in front of the filetype() function does not prevent it from raising a warning (Lstat failed), if E_WARNING is enabled on your error_reporting.
The most common cause of filetype() raising this warning and not showing a filetype() in the output (it actually returns NULL) is, if you happened to pass just the 'Dir or File Name' and not the complete "Absolute or Relative Path" to that 'file or Dir'. It may still read that file and return its filetype as "file" but for Dir's it shows warning and outputs NULL.
eg:
$pathToFile = '/var/www';
$file = 'test.php';
$dir = 'somedir';
Output for filetype($file) will be returned as 'file' and possibly without any warning, but for filetype($dir), it will return NULL with the warning "Lstat failed", unless you pass a complete path to that dir, i.e. filetype($pathToFile.'/'.$dir).
This happened to me and found this solution after a lot of trial and error. Thought, it might help someone.