PHP | filectime() Function

Hello dear readers! welcome back to another edition of our tutorial on PHP. In this tutorial guide, we are going to be discussing about the PHP filectime() Function.

The built-in PHP filectime() function returns the last modification time of the specified file. This function can check the daily modification of a file and also the modification of inode.

The inode modification can simply refer to a modification of authority, owner, user group or modification of metadata.

Syntax

Following below is the syntax to use this function -

int filectime ( string $filename )

READ: PHP | fileatime() Function

The result of this function can be cached, and the clearstatcache() can be used to clear the cache. We can use the filemtime() to return the time when the file content was last modified.

Return Value

This built-in PHP function returns the last modification time of a file as a Unix timestamp if successful, otherwise it returns false if it fails.

Example

Try out the below example -

<?php
   echo filectime("/PhpProject/sample.txt");
   echo "\n";
   echo "Last change: ".date("F d Y H:i:s.",filectime("/PhpProject/sample.txt"));
?>

Output

When the above code is executed, it will produce the following result -

1590217956
Last change: May 23 2020 09:12:36.

READ: PHP | fgetss() Function

Alright guys! This is where we are rounding up for this tutorial guide. In our next tutorial guide, we are going to be discussing about the PHP filegroup() Function.

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