last update

[weronpc]

Do anyone know how to use php to out put last update?

I want to use php to keep track of each time I update my page (each time I save my page).

is it posible?

Thank you

[Jason]

do you mean refresh the page or you mean update some data or do you mean update the code?


Jason

[Saj]

If in updates.txt, you have lines like this:


January 2nd, 2000 - Updated layout again
January 1st, 2000 - Updated layout


I think you could do this:


// Open/Read/Close Updates File
$fp_name = "updates.txt";
$fp = fopen($sp_name, "r");
$content = fread($fp, filesize($fp_name));
fclose($fp);

// Split it into an array
$update = preg_split('#\n#', $content);

// Print Latest Update
echo update[0];

[weronpc]

Thanx for your reply,

but.....

Have you ever go to a page that at the bottom says

Last update : dd/mm/yyyy
or
Last modify : dd/mm/yyyy

I want to post out the date for the latest change of the page.

If I change some code for page home.php
the date will automatically updated to the day I saved the changes. So, when people visit home.php, they can tell is there any new stuff by looking at the last update.

[thox]

*thinks a bit*

echo 'Last update : ' . date ('d/m/Y', filemtime($PATH_TRANSLATED));

[weronpc]

I am new to php stuff,

I don't understand...

what is date ('d/m/Y', filemtime($PATH_TRANSLATED))

Thanx :o

[missing-score]

d/m/Y:

are letters used bye the date() function to create output data...

so: d = day, m = month, Y = year

date("m, d - Y")

would create: month, day - year

[weronpc]

what about filemtime($PATH_TRANSLATED)

[missing-score]

filetime() is a function to get the last save time...

I dunno what $PATH_TRANSLATED is.... never seen it used before...

[weronpc]

I went to php.net and this works for me


$s = filectime($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
$chg = date("F j, Y", $s);
echo "Last update: ".$chg;

[thox]

sorry about that, $PATH_TRANSLATED is simply another way of accessing $_SERVER["PATH_TRANSLATED"]

$_SERVER["PATH_TRANSLATED"]
Filesystem- (not document root-) based path to the current script, after the server has done any virtual-to-real mapping.

Note that filmctime() will not have the desired result you are looking for (from what I can gather from your posts).

filemtime() is what you want to use when you want to create "Last Modified" footers on web pages.

[weronpc]

Thanx,
now it's much better...
:)