sys_get_temp_dir

(PHP 5 >= 5.2.1, PHP 7, PHP 8)

sys_get_temp_dirRetourne le chemin du répertoire utilisé pour les fichiers temporaires

Description

sys_get_temp_dir(): string

Retourne le chemin du répertoire PHP où sont enregistrés les fichiers temporaires par défaut.

Liste de paramètres

Cette fonction ne contient aucun paramètre.

Valeurs de retour

Retourne le chemin du répertoire temporaire.

Exemples

Exemple #1 Exemple avec sys_get_temp_dir()

<?php
// Création d'un fichier temporaire dans le dossier
// des fichiers temporaires, en utilisant la fonction sys_get_temp_dir()
$temp_file = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), 'Tux');

echo
$temp_file;
?>

Résultat de l'exemple ci-dessus est similaire à :

C:\Windows\Temp\TuxA318.tmp

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User Contributed Notes 12 notes

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royanee at yahoo dot com
9 years ago
As of PHP 5.5.0, you can set the sys_temp_dir INI setting so that this function will return a useful value when the default temporary directory is not an option.
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OsakaWebbie
6 years ago
If running on a Linux system where systemd has PrivateTmp=true (which is the default on CentOS 7 and perhaps other newer distros), this function will simply return "/tmp", not the true, much longer, somewhat dynamic path.
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Anonymous
16 years ago
This function does not always add trailing slash. This behaviour is inconsistent across systems, so you have keep an eye on it.
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Ismail Asci
10 years ago
It's not documented but this function does not  send the path with trailing spaces, actually it drops the slash if it exists.

https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/af6c11c5f060870d052a2b765dc634d9e47d0f18/main/php_open_temporary_file.c#L238
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ohcc at 163 dot com
7 years ago
when the sys_temp_dir directive is left unset, sys_get_temp_dir() returns C:\Windows on my Windows.
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Nimja
8 years ago
A very helpful thing to note when on Linux:

If you are running PHP from the commandline you can use the environment variable: TMPDIR - to change the location without touching php.ini. - This should work on most versions of PHP.

Example file: test.php
<?php
   
echo sys_get_temp_dir() . PHP_EOL;
?>

And then running:

php test.php
     /tmp
   
TMPDIR=/custom/location php test.php
    /custom/location
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Anonymous
8 years ago
it should be mentioned that the return value of sys_get_temp_dir() can be set using the ini-directive 'sys_temp_dir' globally as well as per directory by using
php_admin_value sys_temp_dir /path/to/tmp
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bert-jan at bugbyte dot nl
13 years ago
This function does not account for virtualhost-specific modifications to the temp path and/or open_basedir:

<Virtualhost>
php_admin_value open_basedir /home/user
php_admin_value upload_tmp_dir /home/user/tmp
php_admin_value session.save_path /home/user/tmp
</Virtualhost>

Within this config it still returns /tmp
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Anonymous
3 years ago
On windows, when PHP is used as CLI, this function will return the temp directory for the current user e.g. C:\Users\JohnSmith\AppData\Local\Temp\9 instead of C:\Windows\Temp.
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Arthur Clifford
4 years ago
That is important for the purposes of building paths through concatenation to know that sys_get_temp_dir does not include a path separator at the end.

So, sys_get_temp_dir() will return whatever your temp dir is set to, by default:

/tmp

If you attempted to concatenate another dir name  temp and use the following:

mkdir(sys_get_temp_dir() . 'some_dir');

That would actually attempt to generate:
/tmpsome_dir

It would likely result in a permission error unless you are running a php script as a super user.

Instead you would want to do:
mkdir( sys_get_temp_dir() . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR. 'some_dir' );

which would create:
/tmp/some_dir

I don't know if Windows or other platforms include a directory separator at the end. So if you are writing something a bit more general you may want to check for the path separator at the end and if it is not there append it.
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besabellacyrus at gmail dot com
4 years ago
using in windows this trim spaces and add ~1
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dannel at aaronexodus dot com
14 years ago
There's no need to use a random name for the directory for tempnam.

Since a file and a directory can't share the same name on the filesystem, we can exploit this and simply use the name of the current file. It is guaranteed that the directory won't exist (because it's a file, of course).

<?php
if ( !function_exists('sys_get_temp_dir')) {
  function
sys_get_temp_dir() {
    if (!empty(
$_ENV['TMP'])) { return realpath($_ENV['TMP']); }
    if (!empty(
$_ENV['TMPDIR'])) { return realpath( $_ENV['TMPDIR']); }
    if (!empty(
$_ENV['TEMP'])) { return realpath( $_ENV['TEMP']); }
   
$tempfile=tempnam(__FILE__,'');
    if (
file_exists($tempfile)) {
     
unlink($tempfile);
      return
realpath(dirname($tempfile));
    }
    return
null;
  }
}
?>
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