User Contributed Notes: filemtime
benbatten@home.com
I was trying to figure out how to glean a simple "file last modified" time/date stamp while experimenting with PHP on Win95 (shudder) with PWS. filemtime() returned Unix epoch time in seconds. Here is a solution to get the 12 hour time and standard date format, for what its worth:
gerardj@home.com
The above code works fine if you place it on each page you want a date stamp on. I've found that if you place a reference such as <pre>filemtime(__FILE__)</pre> in an included or required file, that the modification time of the inherited file will be returned, not the time of the file that did the ineriting.
jay@fudge.org
If you want this functionality for the parent web page you should use getlastmod()
ian@eiloart.com
See <a href=/old?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.php.net%2Fmanual%2Fja%2F%26quot%3Bhttp%3A%2Fwww.php.net%2Fmanual%2Ffunction.stat.php3%26quot%3B%26gt%3Bthis&y=1999 note</a> for the difference between filemtime and filectime.
chopin@csone.kaist.ac.kr
It does not work when $filename is http url, you must read it from url header by socket open. see <a href=/old?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.php.net%2Fmanual%2Fja%2F%26quot%3Bhttp%3A%2Fwww.phpwizard.net%2FphpTidbits%2F%26quot%3B%26gt%3BphpTidbits-Socket&y=1999 operations</a>
webmaster@info-loe.de
How i can get the lastmodified date from an url like http://www.php.net/index.html
dursh@sutjav.com
I can't seem to get filemtime to work for me when working with Mac files? I'm on a Win NT machine using PWS, and I need to get the dates from a CD with files created on a Mac. The dates view fine in Windows Explorer and DOS, but when trying the filemtime method with PHP, I keep getting "December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm"? Can somebody please tell me if there is a way to get the proper date from my Mac CDs?
Manual: filemtime
