last modified

Anon

I need to know if there is a way to check the last time any file within a certain directory has been modified. It would also be useful if i could list all the files within in this directory. I have looked through the manual and have no found a way to do this. However this sounds odd so i am assume i missed soemthing. anyone know?

Anon

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.

The results of this function are cached. See clearstatcache() for more details.

so always RTFM

mandar

fandelem

well, in a much nicer approach, basically this is how you could do it:

$modified = date("m/d/y g:i:s A", filemtime($current_file) );

something that the manual does not mention is that you must be in the cwd (chdir() into it before hand) otherwise your filemtime's will not work; took me a while to figure that out.

cheers,

kyle

Anon

Okay let me explain again. You both have misunderstood my actual problem. I am perfectly aware of the filetime() function.

Here is what i have. I have two directories - clients/websiteA and clients/websiteB. The files in these directories have been uploaded by another person and i dont know know the names of the files there in fact there could be more or less files at any given moment.

What i want to do is some how extract all the names of the files in these directories so that i can say "WebsiteA was last modified on ...." OR i was hoping in my laziness there was a function that would test ALL files in a direcotiry for me instead of individual files.

The main problem is i do not know the names of these files. my script will create the directories then the client will ftp the files for each website into these direcotries but i cant use filetime() with out a specific file name.

Better??? Any ideas?

fandelem wrote:

well, in a much nicer approach, basically this is how you could do it:

$modified = date("m/d/y g:i:s A", filemtime($current_file) );

something that the manual does not mention is that you must be in the cwd (chdir() into it before hand) otherwise your filemtime's will not work; took me a while to figure that out.

cheers,

kyle

fandelem

 $directory = "$main_user_dir/$current_username/";  // no special permissions needed

         clearstatcache();  // okay clear last file cached
         $dirhandle = opendir($directory);
         while( $filename = readdir($dirhandle) ) {
                 // this will split up directories and files
                 $temp = $directory;
                 $temp .= $filename;
                 $temp .= '/';
                 if ( is_dir($temp) ) {
                      // check to see if directory or not.
                      // rid of ".." and "."
                      if ( ($filename != ".") || ($filename != "..") ) {
                             $dirlist[] = $filename;
                      }

                 } else if ( !is_dir($filename) ) {
                        if ( ($filename != "..") || ($filename != ".") ) {
                             $filelist[] = $filename;
                        }
                 }

          } // end while

change $directory and you will end up with two arrays: $dirlist and $filelist

to get info from them, one way is this:

while ( (list(,$file) = each($filelist)) ) {
// do stuff to $file in here
}

cheers,

kyle