filetype

(PHP 3, PHP 4 )

filetype -- Gets file type

Description

string filetype ( string filename)

Returns the type of the file. Possible values are fifo, char, dir, block, link, file, and unknown.

Returns FALSE if an error occurs. filetype() will also produce an E_NOTICE message if the stat call fails or if the file type is unknown.

Замечание: The results of this function are cached. See clearstatcache() for more details.

Замечание: This function will not work on remote files as the file to be examined must be accessible via the servers filesystem.

See also: is_dir(), is_file(), is_link(), file_exists(), and stat().