How to display modification date of XLS file on server

[njitter]

Hi,

i would like to create a page that links to a XLS file on the webserver.

I would like to show the modification date of the XLS file on this page. Something like this:

file.xls (last modified at 1 januari 2005).

I think i will have to use PHP to get this modification date. Could someone please point me in the right direction?

Kind regards,

Njit

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[Olavxxx]

this is not a problem..

1: take a dirlist script

<?php 
if ($handle = opendir('.')) {
   while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) { 
       if ($file != "." && $file != "..") { 
           echo "$file\n"; 
       } 
   }
   closedir($handle); 
}
?>

2. modify it to show only xls
3. Use

http://no.php.net/manual/en/function.stat.php

to get "last modified" date
4. modify script to generate links

echo "<a href=\"$file\">$file</a>\n";

remember:

Note: The results of this function are cached. See clearstatcache() for more details.

Even if you are a beginner, this takes less than 10 minutes.

Olav Alexander Mjelde

http://www.volvo-power.net

Admin & Webmaster