Retrieving the last modified date

[Anon]

Ok, here's the thing...

I have an array of url's in a mysql table. I want my script to loop through the table, outputting both the URL and the date that page was last modified [ using stat($url) ]. the problem is, no matter what URL I put in, I always get "Wednesday, December 31st" as the last modified date. Anybody know why this is or what i could be doing wrong?

Is there a better way to retrieve the date a page was last modified (even if outside PHP)?

Thanks,
`Jake

[Anon]

Hey jake:

The stat() function is for use with files on your local filesystem only.

http://www.php.net/stat

HTTP/1.1 compliant servers may or may not send a Last-Modified header for a particular request. That is about your only chance.. hope that helps.

Chris King