How to know the creation time of a file by PHP?

Question

Is there any way to get the time when file was created by PHP ?

The manual says that filectime() can not do that ?

Is there any way ?

Read the PHP manual, more specifically the section on file manipulation/information functions — GordonM, Sep 05 '13 at 08:00

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 05 '13 at 07:59

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filectime() will do it but if you are using windows you can get creation time but if you are using UNIX you can get the change time and that would be all.

answered Sep 05 '13 at 07:59

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 05 '13 at 08:00

Try this example On windows the CTime is the creation time, use the following:

<?php
$files = array();

foreach (new DirectoryIterator('/path') as $fileInfo) {    
    $files[$fileInfo->getFileName()] = $fileInfo->getCTime();
}

arsort($files);

This will give you the creation time of file by php

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 05 '13 at 08:19

In PHP, you can get "File Creation Date" by:
Example:

<?php
    echo filemtime("test.txt");
    echo "<br />";
    echo "Last modified: ".date("F d Y H:i:s.",filemtime("test.txt"));
?>

You will get this type of output:

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Last modified: February 01 2006 18:49:37.

How to know the creation time of a file by PHP?

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