Bug in getlastmod() (?)

[mf22cs]

Hi,

I wonder... is there a bug in the function getlastmod() or not?

The CVS-people at php.net say that it is not, and users all over say that there is a bug.

I run:
PHP 4.3.1
Apache 1.3.27
Linux/Slackware 2.4.18

And when I use getlastmod() i get the last access time of the file, not the mod-time.

Why? Any workaround?

Is the bug in PHP, Apache... or what?

/marcus

[pyro]

Try filemtime()... that's what I use. http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.filemtime.php

[jrthor2]

I use this and have no problems. It displays the last time the file was modified:

<?echo Date("F d, Y h:i T", getLastMod());?>

[mf22cs]

Well, it seems to work sometimes and not sometimes.

At bugs.php.net there at more like me, having problems... it is an known bug, but where the bug is not knowen...

At php.net they say it´s the Apache-server. And there aer those who say it´s in the PHP.

/Marcus

PS!
I used this thing that Pyro posted, and that works great...
DS!

[mf22cs]

Originally posted by pyro
Try filemtime()... that's what I use. http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.filemtime.php

This works great, but I installed php on my localhost today. And when I tried with "filemtime" I got the result:

Wed, 1 Jan 1970

Well, on the real webserver "filemtime" results in the correct date, but not on my localhost.

Strange!?!

My webserver is running: Linux/Slack 2.4.18, Apache 1.3.27 with PHP 4.3.1

On my localhost I run: WinXP Pro, IIS 5.1, PHP 4.3.2

/Marcus

[mf22cs]

BTW: getlastmod() works on localhost

But works less good on the webserver... as I wrote before...

/Marcus

[pyro]

Just checked filemtime()... worked fine for me on my local server (Win XP Home, Abyss, PHP 4.3.1) and my remote server (same specs as yours)...

[mf22cs]

Any suggestions? Where do I find the solution to this odd "error"?

php.ini?
extensions?

/Marcus

[pyro]

To be honest, I'm not sure. I don't know all that much about server administration... Sorry.

[diamonds]

wensday,the first of January,1970 is.. somthing of importance. I think it is the time apache bases off of, also one command in javascript returns the number on milaseconds there has been as of that date! Oh, yes! Thats where I saw it from!

[pyro]

Yes, it is. It is the Unix epoch... (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT)

[mf22cs]

Well, Diamond, thanks for telling us all that... but that does not help me.

This is my code:


function datum($what){
$manader = array("januari","februari","mars","april","maj","juni","juli","augusti","september","oktober","november","december");
if ($what=="mod") {
// OPTION 1 OR OPTION 2
} else if ($what=="now") {
$dag = date("j");
$manad = $manader[date("n")-1];
$aar = date("Y");
}
echo $dag ." ". $manad ." ". $aar;
}


Option 1 (that works fine on my localhos):

$dag = date("j", getlastmod());
$manad = $manader[date("n", getlastmod())-1];
$aar = date("Y", getlastmod());



Option 2 (well... works fine on my webserver):

$dag = date("j", filemtime($_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"]));
$manad = $manader[date("n", filemtime($_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"]))-1];
$aar = date("Y", filemtime($_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"]));


/Marcus

[mf22cs]

To get it more readable I made this test.php-file to show you what I talk about...


GLM: <?php
echo date("d-m-Y H:i:s",getlastmod());
?>
<br/>FMT:<?php
echo date("d-m-Y H:i:s",filemtime($_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"]));
?>


At the server this gives the following result:
GLM: 17-06-2003 01:11:35
FMT:17-06-2003 01:18:23

And at local host:
GLM: 17-06-2003 01:18:21
FMT:01-01-1970 01:00:00

Solutions?

/Marcus