fileatime
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.
filectime
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
filectime — Gets inode change time of file
Description
int filectime ( string $filename )Returns the time the file was last changed, or FALSE in case of an error. The time is returned as a Unix timestamp.
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().
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.
Note: 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.
Example 620. 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));
}
?>
See also filemtime()
add a note
User Contributed Notesfilectime
StevieMc at example dot com
15-Nov-2006 02:28
15-Nov-2006 02:28
gyrbo[at]yahoo[dot]com
21-Sep-2002 11:35
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
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.