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Gets inode change time of file
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
Return Values
Returns the time the file was last changed, or ExamplesExample 632. A filectime() example<?phpNotes
Note:
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().
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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.
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The results of this function are cached. See clearstatcache() for more details.
Tip:
As of PHP 5.0.0 this function can also be used with some URL wrappers. Refer to Appendix O, List of Supported Protocols/Wrappers for a listing of which wrappers support stat() family of functionality.
See Also
Related Examples ( Source code ) » filectime Examples ( Source code ) » File changed time Code Examples / Notes » filectimesteviemc
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. website
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. laurent dot pireyn
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.
chuck dot reeves
filectime running on windows reading a file from a samba share, will still show the last modified date.
gyrbo
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.
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