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PHP : Function Reference : Filesystem Functions : filectime

filectime

Gets inode change time of file (PHP 4, PHP 5)
int filectime ( string filename )

Example 632. A filectime() example

<?php

// outputs e.g.  somefile.txt was last changed: December 29 2002 22:16:23.

$filename = 'somefile.txt';
if (
file_exists($filename)) {
   echo
"$filename was last changed: " . date("F d Y H:i:s.", filectime($filename));
}

?>

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Code Examples / Notes » filectime

steviemc

This method gets all the files in a directory, and echoes them in the order of the date they were added (by ftp or whatever).
<?PHP
function dirList ($directory, $sortOrder){
//Get each file and add its details to two arrays
$results = array();
$handler = opendir($directory);
while ($file = readdir($handler)) {  
if ($file != '.' && $file != '..' && $file != "robots.txt" && $file != ".htaccess"){
$currentModified = filectime($directory."/".$file);
$file_names[] = $file;
$file_dates[] = $currentModified;
}
}
  closedir($handler);
//Sort the date array by preferred order
if ($sortOrder == "newestFirst"){
arsort($file_dates);
}else{
asort($file_dates);
}

//Match file_names array to file_dates array
$file_names_Array = array_keys($file_dates);
foreach ($file_names_Array as $idx => $name) $name=$file_names[$name];
$file_dates = array_merge($file_dates);

$i = 0;
//Loop through dates array and then echo the list
foreach ($file_dates as $file_dates){
$date = $file_dates;
$j = $file_names_Array[$i];
$file = $file_names[$j];
$i++;

echo  "File name: $file - Date Added: $date. <br/>"";
}
}
?>
I hope this is useful to somebody.


website

Line 37 of the code above has an error.
echo  "File name: $file - Date Added: $date. <br/>"";  
There is an extra "  after the <br/> that needs to be deleted in order for this code to work.


laurent dot pireyn

If you use filectime with a symbolic link, you will get the change time of the file actually linked to. To get informations about the link self, use lstat.

chuck dot reeves

filectime running on windows reading a file from a samba share, will still show the last modified date.

gyrbo

filectime doesn't seem to be working properly on Win32 systems (it seems to return the creation time). Try using filemtime if you have problems.

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