File Date

jameseymour

Can anyone tell me what is wrong with this code? The code is supposed to display the Last Modified date on the page.

 
$formattedDate = date ("F d Y H:i:s.", filemtime("$file"));
print "Last Revised: $formattedDate";

The output is:
Last Revised: December 31 1969 19:00:00.
Should be:
7 November 2006

Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? Thank you.

Installer

Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?

One thing I'm guessing is that you don't have error reporting turned on. That's the output you'd get if the filename was incorrect.

cahva

Try to debug a liitle. What does it give you with:

echo filemtime($file);

..because I dont think its giving you a proper timestamp now.

Installer

It's apparently returning false, which is interpreted by date() as zero, corresponding to the Unix era, then five hours are subtracted to adjust for the locale setting.

Edit: Here's another debugging suggestion:

if (file_exists($file)) {
    echo 'yes';
} else {
    echo 'no';
}

jameseymour

The file is there, in the same directory and everything. I am using:

$file='filename.php';

Maybe I am missing a step or something?

Installer

What were the results from using the two debugging suggestions? Did you get any error messages after turning on error reporting?