<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >readlink</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.44"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="manual.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Filesystem functions" HREF="ref.filesystem.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="readfile" HREF="function.readfile.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="rename" HREF="function.rename.html"></HEAD ><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.readfile.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.rename.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.readlink" >readlink</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN9253" ></A >readlink -- Return the target of a symbolic link</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN9256" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><DIV CLASS="funcsynopsis" ><P ></P ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >string readlink</CODE >(string path);<P ></P ></DIV ><P > <B CLASS="function" >Readlink()</B > does the same as the readlink C function and returns the contents of the symbolic link path or 0 in case of error. </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.symlink.html" ><B CLASS="function" >symlink()</B ></A >, <B CLASS="function" >readlink()</B > and <A HREF="function.linkinfo.html" ><B CLASS="function" >linkinfo()</B ></A >. </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > This function does not work on Windows systems </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.readfile.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="manual.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.rename.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >readfile</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.filesystem.html" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >rename</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >