Folder information in php

[gsharma]

hi everyone,

  I looked around everywhere but I cant find a good example how to get the creation date of a folder in php. Please advise me if there is a way to do that in php.

thanks in advance,

Gaurav

[linuxdream]

I suppose you could do it the easy way....echo exec('ls -lc $filename');
Not all that elegant, but it works.

[gsharma]

Hi there,

    thanx for the quick reply. Actually this system that Iam working on is required to work on both windows and linux. So I am looking for a way to get this info through php itself. any pointers ?

[linuxdream]

Might take a look at filectime()

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.filectime.php

I just found it...didn't even know it existed! Also chech the filesystem section of the php documentation
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php

[gsharma]

Hey, thanx that was a good resource that you sent me  :)