[RESOLVED] help with stat command

dugindog

I am having a hard time understanding the functionallity of the 'stat' command, and was hoping someone could help me out.

here's what I've got going right now.

<?php

   $path = "c:\windows";
function getfolder($path) {
   # the folder Path to check from.


   # Initialise list arrays, directories and files separately and array counters for them
   $d_arr = array(); $d = 0;


   # Open possibly available directory
   if( is_dir( $path ) ) {
     if( $handle = opendir( $path ) ) {
         while( false !== ( $file = readdir( $handle ) ) ) {
           # Make sure we don't push parental directories or dotfiles (unix) into the arrays
           if( $file != "." && $file != ".." && $file[0] != "." ) {
               if( is_dir( $path . "/" . $file ) )
                 # Create array for directories
                 $d_arr[$d++] = $file;

       }
     }
 }
   }

   # Wrap things up if we're in a directory
   if( is_dir( $handle ) ) closedir( $handle );

   # Sort and reset the arrays
   asort( $d_arr ); reset( $d_arr );


   # Print the directory list
   for( $i=0; $i < count( $d_arr ); $i++ ) {
     # Print with query string
     print $i . " directory = " . $d_arr[$i] . "<br>";
   }

}   

getfolder($path);

?>

what I am looking to do produce an array with the following:

folder name (done), date last modified (need this part)

could someone possibly provide me with a mod to this allowing me to gather this information?

I am assuming it would go within this area of code.

if( is_dir( $path . "/" . $file ) )
                 # Create array for directories
                 $d_arr[$d++] = $file;

dugindog

I appreciate the info provided, and once again the board was found to be VERY useful.

I have completely redone the function I was using, and here's the final output that I have worked with (after giving up on stat).

function backupcheck($folder) {
$arr = glob( $folder , GLOB_ONLYDIR );
$i = count($arr) ;
$time = date('j');
$tima = date('j') -1 ;
for ($t=0; $t <= $i ; $t++)
{
if ($arr[t] != "." or $arr[t] != ".." or $arr[t] != "") {
$tja = date('j',filemtime($arr[$t]));
$counterb ++;
if ($time == $tja or $tima == $tja) {
$countera ++;
}
}
}
if ($counterb >= 5) {
echo "<tr><td align=left>Backup was <strong>Automatic</strong>.</td>";
} else {
echo "<tr><TD>Backup was <strong>NOT Automatic</strong>.</td><td width = 75>$nbsp</td>";
}
echo "<td align=right>Wincati successfully backed up <strong>" . $countera . "</strong> folders</td></tr>";
}

when calling the function using IIS I have also discovered you cannot call the actual mapped network drive instead you must call it as a network share ie: \\server\drive\folder\*

this is the string I ended up using that made everthing function properly. let me know if you can see ways of cleaning up the code etc...

coreyp_1

thank you for your update. I looked into your problem, but ran out of time because of work (I know, the realities of life are no fun!).

Providing the solution so that others can benefit from your experience is also greatly appreciated.

As for a way to clean up the code, consider using foreach() instead of for(). This way, you are accessing a variable rather than indexing an array every time in the loop. I never liked counting through an array, anyway.