Php/docs/function.readlink

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• Returns the target of a symbolic link

readlink

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

readlink — Returns the target of a symbolic link

Description

readlink ( string $path ) : string

readlink() does the same as the readlink C function.

Parameters

path

The symbolic link path.

Return Values

Returns the contents of the symbolic link path or FALSE on error.

Note:

The function fails if path is not a symlink, except on Windows, where the normalized path will be returned.

Examples

Example #1 readlink() example

<?php// output e.g. /boot/vmlinux-2.4.20-xfsecho readlink('/vmlinuz');?>

See Also

• is_link() - Tells whether the filename is a symbolic link
• symlink() - Creates a symbolic link
• linkinfo() - Gets information about a link