<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >touch</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Filesystem functions" HREF="ref.filesystem.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="tmpfile" HREF="function.tmpfile.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="umask" HREF="function.umask.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.tmpfile.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.umask.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.touch" ></A >touch</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN27093" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P >touch -- Sets access and modification time of file</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN27096" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >int <B CLASS="methodname" >touch</B > ( string filename [, int time [, int atime]])<BR ></BR ><P > Attempts to set the access and modification time of the file named by filename to the value given by time. If the option <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >time</I ></TT > is not given, uses the present time. This is equivalent to what utime (sometimes referred to as utimes) does. If the third option <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >atime</I ></TT > is present, the access time of the given filename is set to the value of <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >atime</I ></TT >. Note that the access time is always modified, regardless of the number of parameters. </P ><P > If the file does not exist, it is created. </P ><P > Returns <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >TRUE</B ></TT > on success or <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT > on failure. <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN27118" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >touch()</B > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >if (touch ($FileName)) { print "$FileName modification time has been changed to todays date and time"; } else { print "Sorry Could Not change modification time of $FileName"; }</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.tmpfile.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.umask.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >tmpfile</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.filesystem.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >umask</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >