To get last modified date of website

[rishidadhich]

hi all,

I want to get the last modified date of a website,
but I am completely clueless how to do it.
Is any one got any idea how to do it..

thanx in advance....

[beary]

Well a quick google revealed

echo date("m/d/Y",filemtime("f ilename.php"));

Format it how you like...

[beary]

Or even better (I think) from the php manual

<?php
// outputs e.g. 'Last modified: March 04 1998 20:43:59.'
echo "Last modified: " . date ("F d Y H:i:s.", getlastmod());
?>

[rishidadhich]

thanx Beary,
but problem is not solved yet.
I wanna write a script which will generate the last modified date of any outside url say www.example.com etc.
your code will generate last modified date of current file only.

[beary]

thanx Beary,
but problem is not solved yet.
I wanna write a script which will generate the last modified date of any outside url say www.example.com etc.
your code will generate last modified date of current file only.

Aah. Sorry I didn't see that clearly. I found this page:

http://fundisom.com/phparadise/php/file_handling/remote_last_mod ified

which says it works. I tried it but the date kept saying January 1, 1970 for any file. But apparently it's exactly what you want. If I find something better I'll post. Otherwise, please let know that it works.

[rishidadhich]

no its not working dear,
as you also noticed that its showing again and again January 1, 1970
b'coz its a unix timestamp, starting date of unix, so by default its showing that date.
yaa if u find anything please let me know..

thanx

Aah. Sorry I didn't see that clearly. I found this page:

http://fundisom.com/phparadise/php/file_handling/remote_last_mod ified

which says it works. I tried it but the date kept saying January 1, 1970 for any file. But apparently it's exactly what you want. If I find something better I'll post. Otherwise, please let know that it works.

[beary]

no its not working dear,

dear??????????? ?

[rishidadhich]

ignore the words which u can't understand,
and try to be on the issue, which is how to get modified date of website.
well thanx for your efforts.
but i had solved the problem..

thanx again.

[beary]

ignore the words which u can't understand,
and try to be on the issue, which is how to get modified date of website.
well thanx for your efforts.
but i had solved the problem..

thanx again.

So are you going to post your solution here? No-one else answered, which I assume means no-one else knew. Share the solution...

And by the way, perhaps next time you could leave the attitude at the door. You come to a forum to get help; stop acting like you're way above everyone else. I understood the words no problem; it was the tone that was off.

<mental note>ignore future posts from rishidadhich</mental note>

[r035198x]

Now guys that will be enough of that for now. No need to ignore each other's posts. I'm sure we all never intend to offend anyone. Unfortunately it just happens sometimes and whenever we dicover it we should be able to take back our offenses.

Now about the scipt

 
Last modified: " . date ("F d Y H:i:s.", getlastmod());

I just wanted to know how one passes the name of the file to check the last modified date. I mean I understsood

 echo date("m/d/Y",filemtime("filename.php"));

where I can see the filename passed as argument.

[rishidadhich]

hi,
sorry if my words hurts any on.
ok leave it.........
now the code is..

					$url = 'http://www.rediff.com/';

					echo ("<pre>");
					$a= (get_headers($url,1));

					 $c =$a['Last-Modified'];
					 echo ("<p>");
					 print_r ($c);

It's just extracting last modified date from the header part.
If the website is not providing the last modified date then it wont work.

[r035198x]

Thanks a lot. Handy script.

[zorgi]

Thanks rishidadhich

It works if ['Last-Modified'] is within headers. I tested the script and found that 8 out of 10 times ['Last-Modified'] is not there. Any ideas anyone?

[Markus]

 
Last modified: " . date ("F d Y H:i:s.", getlastmod());

I just wanted to know how one passes the name of the file to check the last modified date.

you don't pass any arguments with getlastmod

getlastmod( void )

It returns the last mod of the current file. i.e. the file that this function is present in.

regards

[t2india]

Thanks rishidadhich

It works if ['Last-Modified'] is within headers. I tested the script and found that 8 out of 10 times ['Last-Modified'] is not there. Any ideas anyone?

Any idea about this. For me 10 out of 10 times ['Last-Modified'] is not there.