Hi Joe , I may be wrong, this is what i understood from your msg . You need to get a list of files from a directory right ? This code may help you if you are looking for this , //Starts Here //Put here the directory you want to search for. Put / if you want to search your entire domain $dir='/'; //Put the date you want to compare with in the format of: YYYY-mm-dd hh:mm:ss $comparedatestr="2006-08-12 00:00:00"; $comparedate=strtotime($comparedatestr); //I run the function here to start the search. directory_tree($dir,$comparedate); //This is the function which is doing the search... function directory_tree($address,$comparedate){ @$dir = opendir($address); if(!$dir){ return 0; } while($entry = readdir($dir)){ if(is_dir("$address/$entry") && ($entry != ".." && $entry != ".")){ directory_tree("$address/$entry",$comparedate); } else { if($entry != ".." && $entry != ".") { $fulldir=$address.'/'.$entry; $last_modified = filemtime($fulldir); $last_modified_str= date("Y-m-d h:i:s", $last_modified); if($comparedate < $last_modified) { echo $fulldir.'=>'.$last_modified_str; echo "<BR>"; } } } } } Hari K T http://www.harikt.com/ http://ijust4u.blogspot.com/ --- On Thu, 12/3/09, Joe Forsythe <jforsythe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: Joe Forsythe <jforsythe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Problem with filemtime To: php-objects@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, phpexperts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Thursday, 12 March, 2009, 8:18 PM I'm doing dynamic generation of a Google sitemap. The important (albeit truncated) code is as follows: $file_list = get_sitemap( $directory, $file_list) ; # Function that loops through the site and gets all of the file names $file_list = explode('|', $file_list) ; # The list of files is pipe (|) separated array_pop($file_ list); # The last array value is blank because of the way the loop in the function above works for ($i=0;$i<count( $file_list) ;$i++) { echo $file_list[$ i].' .:. '; echo date ("F d Y H:i:s.", filemtime('. ./about- us.html')).' .:. TEST<br />'; # The ../ is because this file is running in a subdirectory and for proof of concept that it's working echo date ("F d Y H:i:s.", filemtime($file_ list[$i]) ).' .:. TEST<br />'; echo date ("F d Y H:i:s.", filemtime('. ./about- us.html')).' .:. TEST<br />'; # The ../ is because this file is running in a subdirectory and for proof of concept that it's working } The problem is that when filemtime hits the *first* file in *any* directory, it bombs for that file, with this error: Warning: filemtime() [function.filemtime ]: stat failed for [file name would be here] A couple of notes: 1. The two '../about_us. html' lines are there to nail the first file it is trying to get the time from. 2. Doing filemtime with the file name directly typed into filemtime works fine. 3. I also did a string comparison on the directly typed name vs. the array version of the name, and they are *exactly* the same. 4. I tried doing file opens, directory opens, and pretty much anything else I could come up with to possibly "initialize" access to the various directories, but it didn't make any difference. 5. I googled and did my due diligence for filemtime and the error message, but 5. I also tried a bunch of canned scripts for generating Google sitemaps, but none of them really worked for my purposes. Any insight any of you can provide is greatly appreciated. If you've got a really good script that automatically grabs all file names, file mod times, and has a file ignore list, I'd love to see it. Like I said, nothing I found seemed to be very solid and didn't work very well. -- Joe [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Bring your gang together. Do your thing. Find your favourite Yahoo! group at http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]