Monitor changes to files' times and date

[csywang]

I'm currently doing a project which requires me to build a database of images (not binary data, just references to them). The images will be dumped into my PC via FTP. These images will be updated almost every minute, and I'm to note the changes in the modifies times and dates of these images and then automatically update the MySQL database. Anyone know a script for this? I need a script for the automatic detection of the change in the images' times and dates and automatically update it into my MySQL database. Help is very much appreciated! 🙂

[mattw]

This shouldn't be too difficult to code. Let's assume that you have a table in your database that has the all the image references stored with the time and date. All you would need to do is to constantly loop through the database and check each file name with the filectime() function against what is stored in the database, if it has changed, update it.

You also need to look into set_time_limit() so that your script can run longer than the normal execution time....

If you need help with this, let me know
Matt Wade
codewalkers.com