deleting files older than 30 days

[netjunky]

Can anyone give me an example of how files in a directory could be checked to see if they are older than 30 days from the current date. I would do this in PHP but my host does not allow command line access to PHP.

Any suggestions would greatly be appreciated.

[Anon]

I dont quite understand what you mean, do you want to do this in PHP as a CGI script, or do you mean in a batch file or something similar?

Nic

[Anon]

you don't need to have command access.

try something along the lines of:

if ((time() - filectime($file)) > 606024*30))
unlink($file);

what is does is this: get the current timestamp and subtract the timestamp of the files creation. This will give you the difference between now and filecreation in seconds. If these seconds are greater than a month (in seconds), then delete it.

jens