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<h1 class="refname">filemtime</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 4, PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">filemtime</span> — <span class="dc-title">Gets file modification time</span></p>
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<div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.filemtime-description">
<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
<div class="methodsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="type">int</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>filemtime</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$filename</code></span>
)</div>
<p class="para rdfs-comment">
This function returns the time when the data blocks of a file were being
written to, that is, the time when the content of the file was changed.
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<div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.filemtime-parameters">
<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
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<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">filename</code></em></span>
<dd>
<p class="para">
Path to the file.
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</dd>
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</dl>
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<div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.filemtime-returnvalues">
<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
<p class="para">
Returns the time the file was last modified, or <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong> on failure.
The time is returned as a Unix timestamp, which is
suitable for the <span class="function"><a href="function.date.html" class="function">date()</a></span> function.
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<div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-function.filemtime-examples">
<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
<p class="para">
<div class="example" id="example-2376">
<p><strong>Example #1 <span class="function"><strong>filemtime()</strong></span> example</strong></p>
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<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// outputs e.g. somefile.txt was last modified: December 29 2002 22:16:23.<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$filename </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'somefile.txt'</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br />if (</span><span style="color: #0000BB">file_exists</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$filename</span><span style="color: #007700">)) {<br /> echo </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$filename</span><span style="color: #DD0000"> was last modified: " </span><span style="color: #007700">. </span><span style="color: #0000BB">date </span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"F d Y H:i:s."</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">filemtime</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$filename</span><span style="color: #007700">));<br />}<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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<div class="refsect1 errors" id="refsect1-function.filemtime-errors">
<h3 class="title">Errors/Exceptions</h3>
<p class="para">
Upon failure, an <strong><code>E_WARNING</code></strong> is emitted.
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<div class="refsect1 notes" id="refsect1-function.filemtime-notes">
<h3 class="title">Notes</h3>
<blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>: <p class="para">Note that time resolution may differ
from one file system to another.</p></p></blockquote>
<blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>: <span class="simpara">The results of this
function are cached. See <span class="function"><a href="function.clearstatcache.html" class="function">clearstatcache()</a></span> for
more details.</span></p></blockquote>
<div class="tip"><strong class="tip">Tip</strong><p class="simpara">As of PHP 5.0.0, this function
can also be used with <em class="emphasis">some</em> URL wrappers. Refer to
<a href="wrappers.html" class="xref">Supported Protocols and Wrappers</a> to determine which wrappers support
<span class="function"><a href="function.stat.html" class="function">stat()</a></span> family of functionality.</p></div>
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<div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.filemtime-seealso">
<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
<p class="para">
<ul class="simplelist">
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.filectime.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">filectime()</a> - Gets inode change time of file</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.stat.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">stat()</a> - Gives information about a file</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.touch.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">touch()</a> - Sets access and modification time of file</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.getlastmod.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">getlastmod()</a> - Gets time of last page modification</span></li>
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