filemtime
PHP function
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(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
Gets file modification time
Description
filemtime(string $filename): int|false
This function returns the time when the data blocks of a file were being written to, that is, the time when the content of the file was changed.
Parameters
filenamePath to the file.
Return Values
Returns the time the file was last modified, Falseforfailure. The time is returned as a Unix timestamp, which is suitable for the date() function.
Errors/Exceptions Failure
Examples
filemtime() example
php
<?php
// outputs e.g. somefile.txt was last modified: December 29 2002 22:16:23.
$filename = 'somefile.txt';
if (file_exists($filename)) {
echo "$filename was last modified: " . date ("F d Y H:i:s.", filemtime($filename));
}
?>