Definition :
The PHP fileatime() function returns the last access time of the specified file.
Note: The results of this function are cached. Use clearstatcache() function to clear the cache.
Note: The atime of a file is supposed to change whenever the data blocks of a file are being read. This can decrease the performance if an application accesses a large number of files or directories. Some Unix systems have access time updates disabled to increase performance. On such filesystems this function will be useless.
fileatime(filename)
Parameter | Description |
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filename | Required. Specifies the path to the file to check |
Given below example Get last access time of "demo.txt
":
Output : 1642158280
Last access: January 14 2022 12:04:40.