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filectime

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

filectimeGets inode change time of file

Descrierea

int filectime ( string $filename )

Gets the inode change time of a file.

Parametri

filename

Path to the file.

Valorile întroarse

Returns the time the file was last changed, sau FALSE în cazul eşecului. The time is returned as a Unix timestamp.

Exemple

Example #1 A filectime() example

<?php

// outputs e.g.  somefile.txt was last changed: December 29 2002 22:16:23.

$filename 'somefile.txt';
if (
file_exists($filename)) {
    echo 
"$filename was last changed: " date("F d Y H:i:s."filectime($filename));
}

?>

Note

Notă: Note: In most Unix filesystems, a file is considered changed when its inode data is changed; that is, when the permissions, owner, group, or other metadata from the inode is updated. See also filemtime() (which is what you want to use when you want to create "Last Modified" footers on web pages) and fileatime().

Notă: Note also that in some Unix texts the ctime of a file is referred to as being the creation time of the file. This is wrong. There is no creation time for Unix files in most Unix filesystems.

Notă: Observaţi că rezoluţia timpului poate să difere de la un sistem de fişiere la altul.

Notă: Rezultatele acestei funcţii sunt stocate în cache. Accesaţi clearstatcache() pentru mai multe detalii.

Sfat

Începând cu PHP 5.0.0 această funcţie poate fi utilizată de asemenea cu unele învelişuri URL. Referiţi-vă la List of Supported Protocols/Wrappers pentru lista învelişurilor care susţin familia de funcţionalitate stat().

Vedeţi de asemenea



filegroup> <fileatime
Last updated: Fri, 20 Nov 2009
 
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filectime
soapergem at gmail dot com
05-Sep-2009 04:19
Note that on Windows systems, filectime will show the file creation time, as there is no such thing as "change time" in Windows.
javi at live dot com
03-Feb-2009 10:15
Filemtime seems to return the date of the EARLIEST modified file inside a folder, so this is a recursive function to return the date of the LAST (most recently) modified file inside a folder.

<?php

// Only take into account those files whose extensions you want to show.
$allowedExtensions = array(
 
'zip',
 
'rar',
 
'pdf',
 
'txt'
);

function
filemtime_r($path)
{
    global
$allowedExtensions;
   
    if (!
file_exists($path))
        return
0;
   
   
$extension = end(explode(".", $path));    
    if (
is_file($path) && in_array($extension, $allowedExtensions))
        return
filemtime($path);
   
$ret = 0;
   
     foreach (
glob($path."/*") as $fn)
     {
        if (
filemtime_r($fn) > $ret)
           
$ret = filemtime_r($fn);   
           
// This will return a timestamp, you will have to use date().
    
}
    return
$ret;   
}

?>
rich at rmbwebs dot com
11-Mar-2008 08:07
This is a modification of simraLIAS at mac dot com's code.
Modification dates should not be used for keys in an array when sorting by date because there is no guarantee that all files will have different dates.  Collisions resulting in files missing from the list could be possible.  A better way is to use the filename as the key (guaranteed to not be collisions)

<?php
foreach (glob("../downloads/*") as $path) { //configure path
   
$docs[$path] = filectime($path);
}
asort($docs); // sort by value, preserving keys

foreach ($docs as $path => $timestamp) {
    print
date("d. M. Y: ", $timestamp);
    print
'<a href="'. $path .'">'. basename($path) .'</a><br />';
}
?>
simraLIAS at mac dot com
30-Nov-2007 11:24
This is another way to get a list of files ordered by upload time:

<?php
foreach (glob("../downloads/*") as $path) { //configure path
   
$docs[filectime($path)] = $path;
}
ksort($docs); // sort by key (timestamp)

foreach ($docs as $timestamp => $path) {
    print
date("d. M. Y: ", $timestamp);
    print
'<a href="'. $path .'">'. basename($path) .'</a><br />';
}
?>
chuck dot reeves at gmail dot com
02-Oct-2007 04:14
filectime running on windows reading a file from a samba share, will still show the last modified date.
website at us dot kaspersky dot com
31-Aug-2007 05:51
Line 37 of the code above has an error.

echo  "File name: $file - Date Added: $date. <br/>""; 

There is an extra "  after the <br/> that needs to be deleted in order for this code to work.
StevieMc at example dot com
15-Nov-2006 02:28
This method gets all the files in a directory, and echoes them in the order of the date they were added (by ftp or whatever).

<?PHP
function dirList ($directory, $sortOrder){

   
//Get each file and add its details to two arrays
   
$results = array();
   
$handler = opendir($directory);
    while (
$file = readdir($handler)) { 
        if (
$file != '.' && $file != '..' && $file != "robots.txt" && $file != ".htaccess"){
           
$currentModified = filectime($directory."/".$file);
           
$file_names[] = $file;
           
$file_dates[] = $currentModified;
        }   
    }
      
closedir($handler);

   
//Sort the date array by preferred order
   
if ($sortOrder == "newestFirst"){
       
arsort($file_dates);
    }else{
       
asort($file_dates);
    }
   
   
//Match file_names array to file_dates array
   
$file_names_Array = array_keys($file_dates);
    foreach (
$file_names_Array as $idx => $name) $name=$file_names[$name];
   
$file_dates = array_merge($file_dates);
   
   
$i = 0;

   
//Loop through dates array and then echo the list
   
foreach ($file_dates as $file_dates){
       
$date = $file_dates;
       
$j = $file_names_Array[$i];
       
$file = $file_names[$j];
       
$i++;
           
        echo 
"File name: $file - Date Added: $date. <br/>"";       
    }

}
?>

I hope this is useful to somebody.
gyrbo[at]yahoo[dot]com
21-Sep-2002 11:35
filectime doesn't seem to be working properly on Win32 systems (it seems to return the creation time). Try using filemtime if you have problems.
laurent dot pireyn at wanadoo dot be
27-Sep-2001 12:01
If you use filectime with a symbolic link, you will get the change time of the file actually linked to. To get informations about the link self, use lstat.

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