Determining file creation date?

Matt Traxinger

Is there a function that determines when a file was created? Like if I
wanted to return all the files created in the last month from a directory,
is there a way to do that? I've googled and googled but can't find what I'm
looking for. Thanks

Jul 17 '05 #1

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"Matt Traxinger" <Ma******@yahoo .com> wrote in
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Is there a function that determines when a file was created? Like if I
wanted to return all the files created in the last month from a
directory, is there a way to do that? I've googled and googled but
can't find what I'm looking for. Thanks

The "stat" function will help you determine a file's timestamp; as will
"filemtime" .

Jul 17 '05 #2

Ken Robinson

Matt Traxinger wrote:

Is there a function that determines when a file was created? Like if I wanted to return all the files created in the last month from a directory, is there a way to do that? I've googled and googled but can't find what I'm looking for. Thanks

Instead of google, use http://www.php.net/

It's the best PHP manual on the web.

For the answer to your question, see
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.filectime.php

Ken

Jul 17 '05 #3

Alvaro G. Vicario

*** Matt Traxinger escribió/wrote (Wed, 6 Oct 2004 17:09:35 -0400):

Is there a function that determines when a file was created? Like if I
wanted to return all the files created in the last month from a directory,
is there a way to do that? I've googled and googled but can't find what I'm
looking for. Thanks

If it's a Linux server, stop searching: creation date is not stored in most
Unix file systems. For the available times:

fileatime -- Gets last access time of file
filectime -- Gets inode change time of file
filemtime -- Gets file modification time

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