Php fileowner

PHP function fileowner

This function returns the user ID of file.

Syntax fileowner

filename is a file to check.

fileowner(filename);

Note

The result of this function are cached, and use clearstatcache() function to clear the cache.

Example 1

<?php 
   $filename = 'myfile1.txt';

   $oid = fileowner($filename);
   echo $oid ;
   echo "\n";
// convert user ID to user information
   $ownername = posix_getpwuid($oid);
   print_r( $ownername );
?> 

Output

sophal@sophal-desktop:~/testphp$ php fileowner.php
1000
Array
(
    [name] => sophal
    [passwd] => x
    [uid] => 1000
    [gid] => 1000
    [gecos] => sophal,,,
    [dir] => /home/sophal
    [shell] => /bin/bash
)

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