Re: Help with fread
| From: | Catalin Trifu | Date: | Wed, 28 May 2003 20:04:37 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Help with fread | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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Hi,
As the PHP manual states you CAN NOT use filesystem functions,
such as filesize, filectime, etc...
on remote files, such as those opened opened through HTTP.
You can however rely on the FTP functions, if you can use FTP to
open the files.
Cheers,
Catalin
"Erich Kolb" <ekolb@randbreceivables.com> wrote in message
news:20030528192609.84426.qmail@pb1.pair.com...
> How can I get statistics from a remote file?
>
> I am trying to get info on:
> FileSize
> Date Created
> Date Modified
>
> when:
> fopen ("http://somedomain.com/somefile.ext",
> "r")
>
> Also, I am unable to use filesize function where $fp =
> fopen("http://somedomain.com/somefile.ext",
> "r").
>
>
> Is it possible to do this, or is it a limitation of php/linux filesystem?
>
>