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lstat

Gives information about a file or symbolic link

 **lstat** string $filename

Gathers the statistics of the file or symbolic link named by .
filename

filenamePath to a file or a symbolic link.

See the manual page for for information on the structure of the array that returns. This function is identical to the function except that if the 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. stat``lstat``stat``filename

On failure, false is returned.

**Voorbeeld: Comparison of and **

<?php
symlink('uploads.php', 'uploads');

// Contrast information for uploads.php and uploads
array_diff(stat('uploads'), lstat('uploads'));
?>

Information that differs between the two files.

Array
(
    [ino] => 97236376
    [mode] => 33188
    [size] => 34
    [atime] => 1223580003
    [mtime] => 1223581848
    [ctime] => 1223581848
    [blocks] => 8
)

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