Predefined Constants
basename
Filesystem
PHP Manual

# Filesystem Functions

# See Also

For related functions, see also the Directory and Program Execution sections.

For a list and explanation of the various URL wrappers that can be used as remote files, see also List of Supported Protocols/Wrappers.

## Table of Contents

- 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 — Returns the current position of the file read/write pointer
- 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

Predefined Constants
basename
Filesystem
PHP Manual