Re: Unlink file older then 7 days

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Suhas Pharkute wrote:
http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.fileatime.php

$filename = 'somefile.txt';
if (file_exists($filename) && fileatime($filename) < (time()-(7*24*60*60)) )
{
   unlink($filename);
}

Read docs!

You too! The OP wanted a way to "check the age of all files". The fileatime function will return when the file was last accessed. Accessing a file is not usually deemed to affect its age, modifying it is. The filemtime function is what the OP wants.

-Stut

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On 7/16/07, chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

How would I use fileatime to check if the file is older then 7 days?





>> I have a directory with .txt and .txt.asc files.
>>
>> What I want to do is..
>>
>> Check the age of all files ending in .txt.asc
>>
>> and if the file *.txt.asc is older then 7 days
>>
>> delete thatfile.txt.asc and also thatfile.txt
>>

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