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stream_get_meta_data

(PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5, PHP 7)

stream_get_meta_dataRetrieves header/meta data from streams/file pointers

Description

array stream_get_meta_data ( resource $stream )

Returns information about an existing stream.

Parameters

stream

The stream can be any stream created by fopen(), fsockopen() and pfsockopen().

Return Values

The result array contains the following items:

  • timed_out (bool) - TRUE if the stream timed out while waiting for data on the last call to fread() or fgets().

  • blocked (bool) - TRUE if the stream is in blocking IO mode. See stream_set_blocking().

  • eof (bool) - TRUE if the stream has reached end-of-file. Note that for socket streams this member can be TRUE even when unread_bytes is non-zero. To determine if there is more data to be read, use feof() instead of reading this item.

  • unread_bytes (int) - the number of bytes currently contained in the PHP's own internal buffer.

    Note: You shouldn't use this value in a script.

  • stream_type (string) - a label describing the underlying implementation of the stream.

  • wrapper_type (string) - a label describing the protocol wrapper implementation layered over the stream. See Supported Protocols and Wrappers for more information about wrappers.

  • wrapper_data (mixed) - wrapper specific data attached to this stream. See Supported Protocols and Wrappers for more information about wrappers and their wrapper data.

  • mode (string) - the type of access required for this stream (see Table 1 of the fopen() reference)

  • seekable (bool) - whether the current stream can be seeked.

  • uri (string) - the URI/filename associated with this stream.

Examples

Example #1 stream_get_meta_data() example

<?php
$url 
'http://www.example.com/';

if (!
$fp fopen($url'r')) {
    
trigger_error("Unable to open URL ($url)"E_USER_ERROR);
}

$meta stream_get_meta_data($fp);

print_r($meta);

fclose($fp);
?>

The above example will output something similar to:

Array
(
    [wrapper_data] => Array
        (
            [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
            [1] => Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat)
            [2] => Last-Modified: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:24:10 GMT
            [3] => ETag: "b300b4-1b6-4059a80bfd280"
            [4] => Accept-Ranges: bytes
            [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
            [6] => Set-Cookie: FOO=BAR; expires=Fri, 21-Dec-2012 12:00:00 GMT; path=/; domain=.example.com
            [6] => Connection: close     
            [7] => Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:00:00 GMT
            [8] => Age: 1164   
            [9] => Content-Length: 438
        )

    [wrapper_type] => http
    [stream_type] => tcp_socket/ssl
    [mode] => r
    [unread_bytes] => 438
    [seekable] => 
    [uri] => http://www.example.com/
    [timed_out] => 
    [blocked] => 1
    [eof] => 
)

Notes

Note:

This function does NOT work on sockets created by the Socket extension.

See Also

User Contributed Notes

ed at readinged dot com
13 years ago
Below is a function I wrote to pull the "Last-Modified" header from a given URL.  In PHP version 4.3 and above, it takes advantage of the stream_get_meta_data function, and in older version it uses a conventional GET procedure.  On failure to connect to $url, it returns NULL.  If the server does not return the Last-Modified header, it returns the current time.  All times are returned in PHP's integer format (seconds since epoch).

Use it as so:

$last_modified = stream_last_modified('http://www.php.net/news.rss');
if (!is_null($last_modified))
   if ($last_modified < time()-3600) //Older than an hour
      echo 'URL is older than an hour.';
   else
      echo 'URL is fairly new.';
else
   echo 'Invalid URL!';

function stream_last_modified($url)
{
   if (function_exists('version_compare') && version_compare(phpversion(), '4.3.0') > 0)
   {
      if (!($fp = @fopen($url, 'r')))
         return NULL;

      $meta = stream_get_meta_data($fp);
      for ($j = 0; isset($meta['wrapper_data'][$j]); $j++)
      {
         if (strstr(strtolower($meta['wrapper_data'][$j]), 'last-modified'))
         {
            $modtime = substr($meta['wrapper_data'][$j], 15);
            break;
         }
      }
      fclose($fp);
   }
   else
   {
      $parts = parse_url($url);
      $host  = $parts['host'];
      $path  = $parts['path'];

      if (!($fp = @fsockopen($host, 80)))
         return NULL;

      $req = "HEAD $path HTTP/1.0\r\nUser-Agent: PHP/".phpversion()."\r\nHost: $host:80\r\nAccept: */*\r\n\r\n";
      fputs($fp, $req);

      while (!feof($fp))
      {
         $str = fgets($fp, 4096);
         if (strstr(strtolower($str), 'last-modified'))
         {
            $modtime = substr($str, 15);
            break;
         }
      }
      fclose($fp);
  }
   return isset($modtime) ? strtotime($modtime) : time();
}
php dot chaska at xoxy dot net
1 year ago
In PHP 5.4.24 and 5.4.25, this command does not correctly return the stream blocking status.  It always returns ['blocked'] == 1 regardless of the actual blocking mode.  A call to stream_set_blocking($stream, 0) will succeed (return TRUE) and subsequent calls to stream_get_contents($stream) will NOT block, even though a call to stream_get_meta_data($stream) will return 'blocked' == 1.  Hopefully this will save some people a bunch of debugging time.

See bug report #47918 for more information (http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=47918).

Proof:
<?php
$d
= array(
   
0 => array('pipe', 'r'),
   
1 => array('pipe', 'w'),
   
2 => array('file', 'error.log', 'a')
);

$p = proc_open('php -S localhost:8000', $d, $pipes);

if (!
is_resource($p))   die("proc_open() failed\n");

// Set child's stdout pipe to non-blocking.
if (!stream_set_blocking($pipes[1], 0)) {
    die(
"stream_set_blocking() failed\n");
}
else {
    echo
"Non-blocking mode should be set.\n";
}

// View the status of that same pipe.
// Note that 'blocked' is 1!  This appears to be wrong.
print_r(stream_get_meta_data($pipes[1]));

// Try to read something.  This will block if in blocking mode.
// If it does not block, stream_set_blocking() worked but
// stream_get_meta_data() is lying about blocking mode.
$data = stream_get_contents($pipes[1]);

echo
"data = '$data'\n";
?>

Output:
Non-blocking mode should be set.
Array
(
    [stream_type] => STDIO
    [mode] => r
    [unread_bytes] => 0
    [seekable] =>
    [timed_out] =>
    [blocked] => 1         // << claims to be in blocking mode
    [eof] =>
)
data = ''                      // this would never appear if we blocked.
derkontrollfreak+9hy5l at gmail dot com
1 year ago
Apparently, custom wrappers are always seekable.
niels at nise81 dot com
8 years ago
here is just an example how to read out all meta data.
how ever I found out that the "seekable"-entry doesn't exist in most of the streaming media files.

      if (!($fp = @fopen($url, 'r')))
         return NULL;

      $meta = stream_get_meta_data($fp);
     
          foreach(array_keys($meta) as $h){
              $v = $meta[$h];
              echo "".$h.": ".$v."<br/>";
              if(is_array($v)){
                  foreach(array_keys($v) as $hh){
                      $vv = $v[$hh];
                      echo "_".$hh.": ".$vv."<br/>";
                  }
              }
          }
      fclose($fp);
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