amphp/file

AMPHP is a collection of event-driven libraries for PHP designed with fibers and concurrency in mind. amphp/file provides non-blocking file system access.

Installation

This package can be installed as a Composer dependency.

composer require amphp/file

amphp/file works out of the box without any PHP extensions. It uses multiple processes by default, but also comes with a blocking driver that just uses PHP's blocking functions in the current process.

Extensions allow using threading in the background instead of using multiple processes:

• ext-eio
• ext-uv
• ext-parallel

Usage

read

Read the specified file's contents:

$contents = Amp\File\read('/path/to/file.txt');

write

Write the contents string to the specified path:

Amp\File\write('/path/to/file.txt', 'contents');

openFile

Open a File handle for the specified path, e.g. to stream data:

$file = Amp\File\openFile('/path/to/file.txt', 'r');
Amp\ByteStream\pipe($file, getStdout());

getStatus

Execute a file stat operation.

If the requested path does not exist the function will return null.

getLinkStatus

Same as getStatus() except if the path is a link then the link's data is returned.

If the requested path does not exist the function will return null.

exists

Checks whether the specified path exists.

getSize

Returns the file size in bytes.

isDirectory

Checks whether the given path exists and is a directory.

isFile

Checks whether the given path exists and is a regular file.

isSymlink

Checks whether the given path exists and is a symlink.

getModificationTime

Returns the file's modification time as Unix timestamp in seconds.

getAccessTime

Returns the file's access time as Unix timestamp in seconds.

getCreationTime

Returns the file's creation time as Unix timestamp in seconds.

createHardlink

Creates a new hardlink.

createSymlink

Creates a new symlink.

resolveSymlink

Resolves a symlink to its target path.

move

Move / rename a file or directory.

deleteFile

Deletes a file.

createDirectory

Creates a directory.

createDirectoriesRecursively

Creates a directory and its parents.

deleteDirectory

Deletes a directory.

listFiles

List all files and subdirectories in a directory.

changePermissions

Change the permissions of a file or directory.

changeOwner

Change the ownership of a file or directory.

touch

Update the access and modification time of the specified path.

If the file does not exist it will be created automatically.

File

Reference to an open file handle.

File::read

See also File::isReadable.

File::write

See also File::isWritable.

File::end

See WritableStream::end().

File::close

Close the file handle.

• File::isClosed() can be used to check if the file handle has already been closed.
• File::onClose() can be used ot register a callback that's called on file handle closure.

File::seek

Set the internal pointer position.

• SEEK_SET: Set position equal to offset bytes.
• SEEK_CUR: Set position to current location plus offset.
• SEEK_END: Set position to end-of-file plus offset.

Returns the new offset position.

See also File::isSeekable.

File::tell

Return the current internal offset position of the file handle.

File::eof

Test for being at the end of the stream (a.k.a. "end-of-file").

File::getPath

Retrieve the path used when opening the file handle.

File::getMode

Retrieve the mode used when opening the file handle.

File::truncate

Truncates the file to the given length. If $size is larger than the current file size, the file is extended with NUL bytes.

Versioning

amphp/file follows the semver semantic versioning specification like all other amphp packages.

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email [email protected] instead of using the issue tracker.

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see LICENSE for more information.