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File interface in Drupal 4

Same name and namespace in other branches
  1. 8 core/includes/file.inc \file
  2. 5 includes/file.inc \file
  3. 6 includes/file.inc \file
  4. 7 includes/file.inc \file
  5. 9 core/includes/file.inc \file

Common file handling functions.

File

includes/file.inc, line 14
API for handling file uploads and server file management.

Functions

Namesort descending Location Description
file_check_directory includes/file.inc Check that the directory exists and is writable. Directories need to have execute permissions to be considered a directory by FTP servers, etc.
file_check_location includes/file.inc Check if a file is really located inside $directory. Should be used to make sure a file specified is really located within the directory to prevent exploits.
file_check_path includes/file.inc Checks path to see if it is a directory, or a dir/file.
file_check_upload includes/file.inc Check if $source is a valid file upload. If so, move the file to Drupal's tmp dir and return it as an object.
file_copy includes/file.inc Copies a file to a new location. This is a powerful function that in many ways performs like an advanced version of copy().
file_create_filename includes/file.inc Create a full file path from a directory and filename. If a file with the specified name already exists, an alternative will be used.
file_create_path includes/file.inc Make sure the destination is a complete path and resides in the file system directory, if it is not prepend the file system directory.
file_create_url includes/file.inc Create the download path to a file.
file_delete includes/file.inc Delete a file.
file_directory_path includes/file.inc Determine the default 'files' directory.
file_directory_temp includes/file.inc Determine the default temporary directory.
file_download includes/file.inc Call modules that implement hook_file_download() to find out if a file is accessible and what headers it should be transferred with. If a module returns -1 drupal_access_denied() will be returned. If one or more modules returned headers the download…
file_move includes/file.inc Moves a file to a new location.
file_save_data includes/file.inc Save a string to the specified destination.
file_save_upload includes/file.inc Saves a file upload to a new location. The source file is validated as a proper upload and handled as such.
file_scan_directory includes/file.inc Finds all files that match a given mask in a given directory. Directories and files beginning with a period are excluded.
file_transfer includes/file.inc Transfer file using http to client. Pipes a file through Drupal to the client.
file_upload_max_size includes/file.inc Determine the maximum file upload size by querying the PHP settings.
_file_convert_to_mb includes/file.inc Helper function for file_upload_max_size().

Constants