ftp_mdtm

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

ftp_mdtmReturns the last modified time of the given file

Description

ftp_mdtm ( resource $ftp , string $filename ) : int

ftp_mdtm() gets the last modified time for a remote file.

Note:

Not all servers support this feature!

Note:

ftp_mdtm() does not work with directories.

Parameters

ftp

The link identifier of the FTP connection.

filename

The file from which to extract the last modification time.

Return Values

Returns the last modified time as a local Unix timestamp on success, or -1 on error.

Examples

Example #1 ftp_mdtm() example

<?php

$file 
'somefile.txt';

// set up basic connection
$conn_id ftp_connect($ftp_server);

// login with username and password
$login_result ftp_login($conn_id$ftp_user_name$ftp_user_pass);

//  get the last modified time
$buff ftp_mdtm($conn_id$file);

if (
$buff != -1) {
    
// somefile.txt was last modified on: March 26 2003 14:16:41.
    
echo "$file was last modified on : " date("F d Y H:i:s."$buff);
} else {
    echo 
"Couldn't get mdtime";
}

// close the connection
ftp_close($conn_id);

?>