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Only way to change modification date in catalogue is to create file in via touch() and dalete it with unlink():
<?php
$dir = 'temp';
$files1 = scandir($dir);
$files1 = array_slice($files1, 2);
foreach ($files1 as $key => $val)
{
if (!is_dir($val)) continue;
if (!touch($val))
{
touch($val . "/plik.txt");
unlink($val . "/plik.txt");
}
}
?>
touch
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
touch — Sets access and modification time of file
Description
bool touch
( string $filename
[, int $time
[, int $atime
]] )
Attempts to set the access and modification times of the file named in the filename parameter to the value given in time . Note that the access time is always modified, regardless of the number of parameters.
If the file does not exist, it will be created.
Parameters
- filename
-
The name of the file being touched.
- time
-
The touch time. If time is not supplied, the current system time is used.
- atime
-
If present, the access time of the given filename is set to the value of atime
Return Values
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.
ChangeLog
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 5.3.0 | It became possible to change the modification time of a directory under Windows. |
Examples
Example #1 touch() example
<?php
if (touch($FileName)) {
echo "$FileName modification time has been changed to present time";
} else {
echo "Sorry, could not change modification time of $FileName";
}
?>
Example #2 touch() using the time parameter
<?php
/*
* This is the touch time, we'll set it to one hour
* in the past.
*/
$time = time() - 3600;
/* Touch the file */
if(!touch('some_file.txt', $time))
{
echo 'Whoops, something went wrong...';
}
else
{
echo 'Touched file with success';
}
?>
Notes
Note: Note that time resolution may differ from one file system to another.
Warning
Prior to PHP 5.3.0 it was not possible to change the modification time of a directory with this function under Windows.
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User Contributed Notestouch
info at archiwumrocka dot art dot pl
01-Dec-2008 09:59
01-Dec-2008 09:59
mrgrier at yahoo dot com
29-Nov-2008 06:29
29-Nov-2008 06:29
At least on Linux, touch will not change the time on a symlink itself, but on the file/directory it points to. The only way to work around this is to unlink the symlink, then recreate it.
It took a bit of searching to discover this. The OS itself provides no way to do it. Many people wondered why anyone would want to do this. I use symlinks inside a web tree to point to files outside the web tree. After a certain length of time has passed, I want the symlinks to die, so the files cannot be successfully hotlinked.
ddalex at gmail dot com
03-Nov-2008 05:25
03-Nov-2008 05:25
Actually, Glen is right, PHP won't touch if it is not the current owner of the file, even if the directory and files are writeable by the PHP user.
Bess E. R. Wisser
25-Aug-2008 08:20
25-Aug-2008 08:20
"Glen: In unix on the command-line, you can touch files you don't own - but like other comments on this page state - PHP's built in touch won't work."
No, you can not modify files you don't have write access to in a multi-user environment, ever, under any circumstances. The reason why you fail to do this "in PHP" is because your httpd is most likely running as a "shared" setup, running as nobody/nobody, and your user's files aren't world-writable, and they are not owned by nobody/nobody. Change your required files to be world-writable and you can touch() them, and more.
Radon8472
08-Aug-2008 12:07
08-Aug-2008 12:07
Important info:
touch() used on a directory always returns FALSE and prints "Permission denied" on NTFS and FAT Filesystem (tested on winXP).
Jeff
26-Jun-2008 07:29
26-Jun-2008 07:29
I've been trying to set a filemtime into the future with touch() on PHP5.
It seems touch $time has a future limit around 1000000 seconds (11 days or so). Beyond this point it reverts to a previous $time.
It doesn't make much sense but I could save you hours of time.
$time = time()+1500000;
touch($cachedfile,$time);
Glen
18-Oct-2007 08:01
18-Oct-2007 08:01
In unix on the command-line, you can touch files you don't own - but like other comments on this page state - PHP's built in touch won't work.
I simple alternative (on unix):
<?php
function touch_it_good($filename)
{
exec("touch {$filename}");
}
?>
ilrazziatore85 AT yahoo DOT it
21-May-2007 03:10
21-May-2007 03:10
Feathern wrote a little script for fetching files from a directory after a certain date.
However the if statement (line 8) should be:
if(($test[2] > 2002) || (($test[2] = 2002) && ($test[0] > 6)) || (($test[2] = 2002) && ($test[0] = 6) && ($test[1] > 17))){
echo $filelist[$i]."\r\n";
}
Otherwise the script won't fetch lots of files it should.
(In the example given, it should fetch all the files created after 06/17/2002, but the original script would miss files created 03/18/2003 or 11/01/2004)
seocab at rit dot edu
31-Mar-2007 04:09
31-Mar-2007 04:09
The script for modifying the access time without modifying the modified time is overly complicated:
<? touch($filename, date('U', filemtime($filename)), time()); ?>
Since filemtime returns a UNIX timestamp, there is no need to call date('U') so the script could be simplified to:
<? touch($filename,filemtime($filename),time()); ?>
Charles Belov
19-Jul-2006 01:10
19-Jul-2006 01:10
Update the access time without updating the modified time:
Unix command: touch -a filename
PHP: touch(filename, date('U', filemtime(filename)), time())
spam at webmastersguide dot com
01-Sep-2005 12:09
01-Sep-2005 12:09
If you're going to go around deleting (unlinking) files
that you don't own just in order to change the modification
time on the file, you darn well better chown() the file
back to it's original ownership after you are done and
chmod() it back to it's correct permissions. Otherwise
you will almost certainly break things. Additionally the
code listed for touch()ing a file you don't own should
set the file creation time back to it's original time if
what is wanted is to just change the modification time.
Also, the code listed will break things if there is an i/o
error such as disk full or too many files in the directory.
Here's how the code SHOULD be written:
Create the new file FIRST, rather than last, with a different
name such as $file.tmp.
Read the ownership, permissions, and creation time of the old file.
Set permissions and creation time of the new file the same as the old.
Rename the new file to the name of the old.
chown() the new file to the user that owned the file it's replacing.
Please be careful adding to the documentation if you've
never taken programming 101.
rf_public at yahoo dot co dot uk
25-Jul-2005 07:19
25-Jul-2005 07:19
Note: the script to touch a file you don't own will change it's owner so ensure permissions are correct or you could lose access to it
guy at forster design dot com
12-May-2005 10:42
12-May-2005 10:42
Here's a little workaround that allows the PHP user to touch a file it doesn't own:
<?php
$target_file = "/path/to/file/filename.txt"; //system filepath to your file
$file_content = implode("",file($target_file));
@unlink($target_file);
if($savetofile = fopen($target_file, "w")) {
fputs($savetofile, $file_content);
fclose($savetofile);
}
$new_date = strtotime("23 April 2005"); // set the required date timestamp here
touch($target_file,$new_date);
?>
Of course, PHP needs to have write access to the folder containing the file you want to touch, but that should be easy to arrange.
feathern at yahoo dot com
13-Aug-2002 10:31
13-Aug-2002 10:31
Neat little script that will give you a list of all modified files in a certain folder after a certain date:
$filelist = Array();
$filelist = list_dir("d:\\my_folder");
for($i=0;$i<count($filelist);$i++){
$test = Array();
$test = explode("/",date("m/d/Y",filemtime($filelist[$i])));
//example of files that are later then
//06/17/2002
if(($test[2] > 2001) && ($test[1] > 16) && ($test[0] > 5)){
echo $filelist[$i]."\r\n";
}
clearstatcache();
}
function list_dir($dn){
if($dn[strlen($dn)-1] != '\\') $dn.='\\';
static $ra = array();
$handle = opendir($dn);
while($fn = readdir($handle)){
if($fn == '.' || $fn == '..') continue;
if(is_dir($dn.$fn)) list_dir($dn.$fn.'\\');
else $ra[] = $dn.$fn;
}
closedir($handle);
return $ra;
}
emilebosch at hotmail dot com
06-Oct-2001 10:41
06-Oct-2001 10:41
To spare you ppl couple of hours of valuable time, you can only TOUCH a file that you own! Usually PHP is *nobody*
Warm regards,
Emile Bosch
master at dreamphp dot com
15-May-2001 06:23
15-May-2001 06:23
$filename = "test.dat";
if (!file_exists($filename)) {
touch($filename); // Create blank file
chmod($filename,0666);
}