PHP fileatime() Function

Definition

The fileatime() function returns the last access time of the specified file.

Syntax

PHP fileatime() Function has the following syntax.

Parameter

Note

The result of this function are cached. Use clearstatcache() to clear the cache.

Return

Returns the time the file was last accessed, or FALSE on failure. The time is returned as a Unix timestamp.

Example

PHP function fileatime() returns last accessed time.

It returns a Unix timestamp for the time, which you then need to convert using a call to date(), like this:

<?PHP/*w w  w  .  j a  v a 2 s.  c o m*/
     $contacts = "text.txt";
     $atime = fileatime($contacts);
     $mtime = filemtime($contacts);

     $atime_str = date("F jS Y H:i:s", $atime);
     $mtime_str = date("F jS Y H:i:s", $mtime);

     print "File last accessed: $atime_str\n";
     print "File last modified: $mtime_str\n";

     echo fileatime("test.txt");
     echo "\n";
     echo "Last access: ".date("F d Y H:i:s.",fileatime("test.txt"));

?>