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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Delete directory after 3 days Post 302418816 by thegeek on Wednesday 5th of May 2010 12:11:02 PM
Old 05-05-2010
Ideally what you are doing is right ? But something else is wrong.


Kindly paste the date output, and the modification time of the directory.
 

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GETLASTMOD(3)								 1							     GETLASTMOD(3)

getlastmod - Gets time of last page modification

SYNOPSIS
int getlastmod (void ) DESCRIPTION
Gets the time of the last modification of the main script of execution. If you're interested in getting the last modification time of a different file, consider using filemtime(3). RETURN VALUES
Returns the time of the last modification of the current page. The value returned is a Unix timestamp, suitable for feeding to date(3). Returns FALSE on error. EXAMPLES
Example #1 getlastmod(3) example <?php // outputs e.g. 'Last modified: March 04 1998 20:43:59.' echo "Last modified: " . date ("F d Y H:i:s.", getlastmod()); ?> SEE ALSO
date(3), getmyuid(3), getmygid(3), get_current_user(3), getmyinode(3), getmypid(3), filemtime(3). PHP Documentation Group GETLASTMOD(3)
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