PHP: How to get creation time of file with PHP on Linux machines

Posted on 01. Sep, 2009 by Dragos in Coding, PHP

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Unfortunately it is not possible to get the creation time of a file on Linux machines. None of the functions fileatime,filemtime or filctime will return the file
creation time.

Note: 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. (from php.net)

In order to solve this issue, you could try to store in a database/file the time when a file is created for later use.

                    
                    

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