[RESOLVED] File Modified Date Script Issue

[keh]

i have a weird issue with a script i made to automatically show the modified date of the index page a user will see when they first come to my website. when i reference the file with the with only the domain name, www.mydomain.com, i get erroneous data (it gives me a date of Wed Dec 31 1969 7:00 PM). if i put www.mydomain.com/index.php i get the correct last modified date. my code is as follows:

at the top of my script i have the following:

<?php
$mtime = filemtime(basename($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']));
?>

this pulls the name of the file, formats the filename and then pulls the date/time info and puts it in a variable named $mtime

later on i print the string out:

<?php
echo "<i> Last Updated on ".date(" D M d Y g:i A", $mtime)."</i>";
?>

everything seems to be working when i call the script completely, but since its my index i need it to work without putting in index.php. its driving me nuts, so if anyone can help i would greatly appreciate it.

thanks!
keh

[bradgrafelman]

Wait.. you're trying to get the modification date over HTTP? Not only does that waste resources like crazy, but that's definitely not a reliable way to do it.

What you want to do is get the modification time of the file via the local file path on the server. To do this, simply use $SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] or maybe $SERVER['PATH_TRANSLATED']. I don't remember the difference, but you can look it up on this man page I believe: [man]reserved.variables[/man].

[keh]

awesome!
i used $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] and problem solved. thanks for the help!
keh