fileowner

(PHP 3, PHP 4 )

fileowner -- Gets file owner

Description

int fileowner (string filename)

Returns the user ID of the owner of the file, or false in case of an error. The user ID is returned in numerical format, use posix_getpwuid() to resolve it to a username.

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

This function will not work on remote files; the file to be examined must be accessible via the server's filesystem.

Note: This function does not work on Windows systems