Date Auto-Update on Save Dreamweaver/PHP

[mbyrd1332]

Just wondering if any of you knew of a way to trap the <!-- #BeginDate
format:Am1 -->April 4, 2006<!-- #EndDate --> (Dreamweaver's
Auto-Update-on-Save Date Code) into a PHP variable and still have the
Date update on save? Or really any way to have a variable with the
updated date stored when the file is saved is what i'm looking for,
this just seemed like a possible solution.

Something to the effect of:

<?php
$saved_date = '<!-- #BeginDate format:Am1 -->April 4, 2006<!-- #EndDate
-->';
?>

or

<?php
$saved_date = ' ?> <!-- #BeginDate format:Am1 -->April 4, 2006<!--
#EndDate --> <?php ';
?>

But Dreamweaver skips over the code when it's embedded in the php in
the first example, and the second i'm sure would cause a compile error.

[Richard Levasseur]

<? ob_start();?><!-- #begin dreamweaver stuff --><?
$date=ob_get_clean() ?>

Though, its sketchy that dreamwaver will parse the stuff. I've never
gotten it to work reliably, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
I just stick a 'last updated' variable at the top of the file or very
bottom so i don't forget. You could also using the 'last modified'
file attribute, but that might be altered by other things.

[NC]

mb*******@gmail.com wrote:

Just wondering if any of you knew of a way to trap the <!-- #BeginDate
format:Am1 -->April 4, 2006<!-- #EndDate --> (Dreamweaver's
Auto-Update-on-Save Date Code) into a PHP variable and still have the
Date update on save?

Why bother? Just use the file system functions:

$saved_date = date('F j, Y', filectime(__FILE__));

Cheers,
NC

[Andy Jeffries]

On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 20:47:10 -0700, NC wrote:

Just wondering if any of you knew of a way to trap the <!-- #BeginDate
format:Am1 -->April 4, 2006<!-- #EndDate --> (Dreamweaver's
Auto-Update-on-Save Date Code) into a PHP variable and still have the
Date update on save?

Why bother? Just use the file system functions:

$saved_date = date('F j, Y', filectime(__FILE__));

But you probably want to use filemtime not filectime. The date of the
last save, not the date the file was created on.

Cheers,
Andy
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[mbyrd1332]

ah! exactly what i was looking for, but i wasn't even aware of the
filetime commands. thanks.

[NC]

Andy Jeffries wrote:

On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 20:47:10 -0700, NC wrote:

Why bother? Just use the file system functions:

$saved_date = date('F j, Y', filectime(__FILE__));
But you probably want to use filemtime not filectime.

You're right... Where was my head? :)
The date of the last save, not the date the file was created on.

On this one, though, I think you're a bit off... On most Unix systems,
there is no such thing as file creation time. There is only the time
of last file change; a file is considered changed when its inode data
(permissions, owner, group, etc.) is changed.

Cheers,
NC