php: file last edited

airswit · 12-05-2005, 11:38 PM

hi, i have been looking around, and i cant seem to find any way to get the date of the last edit of a file. the reason, of course, is i would like to display on the page when the site was last updated. any help would be much appreciated!

airswit · 12-05-2005, 11:40 PM

grr...so i am retarded, not 1 minute after posting, i found my answer:

$info = stat('filename');
echo $info[9] //date of last edit!

well, while i have you here, what is the difference between last metadata change and last contents change?

vireshwali · 12-19-2005, 02:57 AM

following should help you easy...

PHP Code:



<?php 
// outputs e.g.  somefile.txt was last modified: December 29 2002 22:16:23. 
 
$filename = 'somefile.txt'; 
if (file_exists($filename)) { 
   echo "$filename was last modified: " . date ("F d Y H:i:s.", filemtime($filename)); 
} 
?>

For variations change the date function to what ever is ok to you.
Works with php3,4,5.