Date Auto-Update on Save Dreamweaver/PHP

[mbyrd1332@gmail.com]

Just wondering if any of you knew of a way to trap the <!-- #BeginDate
format:Am1 -->April 4, 2006<!-- #EndDate --> (Dreamweaver's
Auto-Update-on-Save Date Code) into a PHP variable and still have the
Date update on save? Or really any way to have a variable with the
updated date stored when the file is saved is what i'm looking for,
this just seemed like a possible solution.

Something to the effect of:

<?php
$saved_date = '<!-- #BeginDate format:Am1 -->April 4, 2006<!-- #EndDate
-->';
?>

or

<?php
$saved_date = ' ?> <!-- #BeginDate format:Am1 -->April 4, 2006<!--
#EndDate --> <?php ';
?>

But Dreamweaver skips over the code when it's embedded in the php in
the first example, and the second i'm sure would cause a compile error.

[Richard Levasseur]

Re: Date Auto-Update on Save Dreamweaver/PHP

<? ob_start();?><!-- #begin dreamweaver stuff --><?
$date=ob_get_cl ean() ?>

Though, its sketchy that dreamwaver will parse the stuff. I've never
gotten it to work reliably, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
I just stick a 'last updated' variable at the top of the file or very
bottom so i don't forget. You could also using the 'last modified'
file attribute, but that might be altered by other things.

[NC]

Re: Date Auto-Update on Save Dreamweaver/PHP

mbyrd1332@gmail .com wrote:[color=blue]
>
> Just wondering if any of you knew of a way to trap the <!-- #BeginDate
> format:Am1 -->April 4, 2006<!-- #EndDate --> (Dreamweaver's
> Auto-Update-on-Save Date Code) into a PHP variable and still have the
> Date update on save?[/color]

Why bother? Just use the file system functions:

$saved_date = date('F j, Y', filectime(__FIL E__));

Cheers,
NC

[Andy Jeffries]

Re: Date Auto-Update on Save Dreamweaver/PHP

On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 20:47:10 -0700, NC wrote:[color=blue][color=green]
>> Just wondering if any of you knew of a way to trap the <!-- #BeginDate
>> format:Am1 -->April 4, 2006<!-- #EndDate --> (Dreamweaver's
>> Auto-Update-on-Save Date Code) into a PHP variable and still have the
>> Date update on save?[/color]
>
> Why bother? Just use the file system functions:
>
> $saved_date = date('F j, Y', filectime(__FIL E__));[/color]

But you probably want to use filemtime not filectime. The date of the
last save, not the date the file was created on.

Cheers,


Andy


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[mbyrd1332@gmail.com]

Re: Date Auto-Update on Save Dreamweaver/PHP

ah! exactly what i was looking for, but i wasn't even aware of the
filetime commands. thanks.

[NC]

Re: Date Auto-Update on Save Dreamweaver/PHP

Andy Jeffries wrote:[color=blue]
> On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 20:47:10 -0700, NC wrote:[color=green]
> >
> > Why bother? Just use the file system functions:
> >
> > $saved_date = date('F j, Y', filectime(__FIL E__));[/color]
>
> But you probably want to use filemtime not filectime.[/color]

You're right... Where was my head? :)
[color=blue]
> The date of the last save, not the date the file was created on.[/color]

On this one, though, I think you're a bit off... On most Unix systems,
there is no such thing as file creation time. There is only the time
of last file change; a file is considered changed when its inode data
(permissions, owner, group, etc.) is changed.

Cheers,
NC