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filectime

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

filectime — 取得文件的 inode 修改时间

说明

filectime(string $filename): int|false

取得文件的 inode 修改时间。

参数

filename: 文件的路径。

返回值

返回文件上次 inode 被修改的时间，或者在失败时返回 false。时间以 Unix 时间戳的方式返回。

错误／异常

失败时抛出 E_WARNING 警告。

示例

示例 #1 filectime() 例子

<?php

// 输出类似：  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));
}

?>

注释

注意:
注意：在大多数 Unix 文件系统中，当一个文件的 inode 数据被改变时则该文件被认为是修改了。也就是说，当文件的权限，所有者，所有组或其它 inode 中的元数据被更新时。参见 filemtime()（这才是你想用于在 Web 页面中建立“最后更新时间”脚注的函数）和 fileatime()。

注意:
注意某些 Unix 说明文本中把 ctime 说成是该文件建立的时间，这是错的。在大多数 Unix 文件系统中没有 Unix 文件的建立时间。

注意:
注意：不同文件系统对时间的判断方法可能是不相同的。

注意: 此函数的结果会被缓存。参见 clearstatcache() 以获得更多细节。

小技巧

自 PHP 5.0.0 起, 此函数也用于某些 URL 包装器。请参见支持的协议和封装协议以获得支持 stat() 系列函数功能的包装器列表。

参见

filemtime() - 取得文件修改时间

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User Contributed Notes 9 notes

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StevieMc at example dot com ¶

16 years ago

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.

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website at us dot kaspersky dot com ¶

16 years ago

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.

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m dot rabe at directbox dot com ¶

13 years ago

Under Windows you can use fileatime() instead of filectime().

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faketruth at yandex dot ru ¶

8 years ago

If you need file creation time on Mac OS X:

<?php
if ($handle = popen('stat -f %B ' . escapeshellarg($filename), 'r')) {
    $btime = trim(fread($handle, 100));
    echo strftime("btime: %Y.%m.%d %H:%M:%S\n", $btime);
    pclose($handle);
}
?>

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soapergem at gmail dot com ¶

14 years ago

Note that on Windows systems, filectime will show the file creation time, as there is no such thing as "change time" in Windows.

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javi at live dot com ¶

14 years ago

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;    
}

?>

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coolkoon at gmail dot com ¶

12 years ago

You should avoid feeding the function files without a path. This applies for filemtime() and possibly fileatime() as well. If you omit the path the command will fail with the warning "filectime(): stat failed for filename.php".

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chuck dot reeves at gmail dot com ¶

16 years ago

filectime running on windows reading a file from a samba share, will still show the last modified date.

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laurent dot pireyn at wanadoo dot be ¶

22 years ago

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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