Date last modified.

Anon

Hi There,

How can I get the date that a .php file was last modified? I have to include it at the bottom of a page:

ie: Date last modified: 2001-04-24

Thanks in advance,

-dr

Anon

Hi
Try this, it will output the date the way you specified in your question.

$date=date("Y-m-d");
print($date);

You can fiddle with the format to no end, I expect the details for this are in the manuall but to give you an idea try:

$date=date("D,M,Y");

Nick

brandonschnell

look at the php function filemtime().

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.filemtime.php

knickerlas

Just thoght, that will show the current date!
Sorry I miss answered you, I guess you could keep that date in a database table tracking page entries to your site though 🙂

Nick

Anon

<? echo getlastmod(); ?>

Anon

I had a page where the SQL data itself was being scraped from another page that was in a state of flux, and it would be important to viewers to know how current my page was in relation to the other page changes.

In my scraping script I simply included the line

touch myPage.php

so whenever the data was updated, the PHP page was as well; and on myPage.php used

<?php
echo " Last updated " . date ("F d Y H:i:s.", getlastmod());
?>

to show the time of last update. Hope this helps.