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Last update of an external URL (like javascript document.LastUpdate())
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sleipnir214
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There is, to the best of my knowledge, no equivalent functionality provided by a single function call in PHP. Although PHP supports opening some URLs as files (depending on your PHP installation's configuration), PHP's stat() function cannot work on them.
It should be possible to create your own function. It could fetch the HTTP headers returned by the server at the URL and then look for a "Last-Modified" header. This will be available for static HTML files, but likely not for the output of scripts. You should be able to use cURL, fopen with a URL stream, or fsockopen to get this information.
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It should be possible to create your own function. It could fetch the HTTP headers returned by the server at the URL and then look for a "Last-Modified" header. This will be available for static HTML files, but likely not for the output of scripts. You should be able to use cURL, fopen with a URL stream, or fsockopen to get this information.
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