Passing file date stamp, not current time?

[Sxooter]

Does anyone know how hard it is to get PHP to pass the date of the .php file not the time stamp of now? I've got a need to pass the real date for my search engine so I can sort by date on my site.

[trooper]

sorry don't quite understand
can you explain a little bit about what you are trying to do

GM

[Sxooter]

Sure. In my /usr/local/apache/htdocs dir I have:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 scott.ma scott.ma 20 Feb 14 12:36 test.php

Now, the date of this file is Feb 14 (it's only 20 bytes, something like phpinfo() 🙂

When the apache/php server serves this page, there is a header at the top like:

Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 16:37:14 GMT

Which is today's date. Now, what I want to spew is the date up above,

Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2003 12:36:54 GMT

But I'm not sure, other than hacking PHP, how to do this. Since SSI is handled first, I'm thinking I could shove a php scriptlet at the top to so something like get file date/time and echo it as a header. So, has anyone out there done anything like this?

[LordShryku]

fileatime() will get the last access time of the file
filemtime() will get the last modified time of the file
touch() will change these to current time

[Sxooter]

Well, I'm really hoping to do this outside the realm of php code itself if possible. Anyone know of some switches in the php engine that control this maybe? Or if it would be easy enough to hack one in?