Date last modified of a second file

[Dufus]

I am a newbie to JS, and would appreciate some help. I have looked throughout this site for a way to obtain the date of a specific, second file on the web site and display that date on the current HTML page. I want to be able to display the last date a data file was uploaded to the web site. Can anyone help???

Thanks in advance...

[head8k]

Hi there

You can't do this on the client side with Javascript I'm afraid. You need to use a server-side language such as ASP or PHP to enable you to access the file system on the webserver. Are either of these languages available to you?

[Dufus]

We could use PHP...

[cg9com]

do you mean, just add a date specifying the last time you edited a document? there is a client side solution. (if thats what you would call it) http://javascriptkit.com/script/cut8.shtml
also vbscript supports document.lastmodified (ie)

[Dufus]

Thanks to both of you for responding. Head8k's quick response put us on the correct trail. We solved the problem with a simple php script:

<?php
echo "<center><B>Sales data was last uploaded from the store on " . date ("F d, Y,", filemtime($Controfile)) . " at " . date ("H:i.",filemtime($Controfile)) . "</B></center>";
?>

Thanks again...