Will something like this work? (From manual)
int fileatime (string filename)
Returns the time the file was last accessed, or false in case of an error. The time is returned as a Unix timestamp
or...
int filemtime (string filename)
Returns the time the file was last modified, or false in case of an error. The time is returned as a Unix timestamp.
or...
int filectime (string filename)
Returns the time the file was last changed, or false in case of an error. The time is returned as a Unix timestamp.
Guess you didn't look that hard...
http://www.php.net/manual/ref.filesystem.php
---John Holmes...