Viola Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 Hi I would like to know if it is possible to set a file's timestamps (last modified, last accessed etc.). I know the functions like filectime etc. get the info., but I want to be able to set it. Please can you tell me if you know -- is this possible? Thanks. Viola Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhodesa Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 Not that I know of (except for the obvious of opening the file and closing it again to set it to now) Are you using Linux by any chance? Cus there are commands for manipulating those values which you could run using exec(). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viola Posted May 22, 2008 Author Share Posted May 22, 2008 Pretty much as I thought -- I didn't think that there was a php function that does that. If there was, my life would have been much easier. The answer is -- my server is linux. I'll have to look into "exec". I've also come across "touch" as well. This makes things more complicated for what I want to do than it would have been if I could have used php (mainly because I'm more familiar with php than with shell scripting). However, as BASH scripting has very little to do with PHP, I guess that it's not a topic for this forum. Thanks for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhodesa Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 Wow, just looked and PHP has a touch function. Didn't know that! http://us3.php.net/touch Enjoy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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