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Display the date/timestamp of a file

Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 3:37 pm
by paulpechey
I want to dynamically display the date that my web pages were updated, and figure I should be able to retrieve the date/timestamp of the file as a PHP variable, and then display it. However, I can't seem to find out how to do this anywhere. Can anyone help?

Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 3:39 pm
by scorphus
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Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 3:44 pm
by djot
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Hi,

If it should be the real date of a real file modified this is the way to get the filetime:

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<?php
// outputs e.g.  somefile.txt was last modified: December 29 2002 22:16:23.

$filename = 'somefile.txt';
if (file_exists($filename)) &#123;
   echo "$filename was last modified: " . date ("F d Y H:i:s.", filemtime($filename));
&#125;
?>
*source: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.filemtime.php

djot
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