Description
int
filectime ( string filename)
Returns the time the file was last changed, or FALSE in case of
an error. The time is returned as a Unix timestamp.
The results of this function are cached. See
clearstatcache() for more details.
Note: In most Unix filesystems, a file is considered
changed when its inode data is changed; that is, when
the permissions, owner, group, or other metadata
from the inode is updated. See also
filemtime() (which is what you want to use
when you want to create "Last Modified" footers on web pages) and
fileatime().
Note also that in some Unix texts the ctime of a file is
referred to as being the creation time of the file. This is wrong.
There is no creation time for Unix files in most Unix filesystems.
This function will not work on remote files; the file to
be examined must be accessible via the server's filesystem.
