touch()

touch - Sets access and modification time of file

Syntax

bool touch (string $filename, int $time, int $atime)

Arguments

• filename - The name of the file being touched.
• time - The touch time. If time is not supplied, the current system time is used.
• atime - If present, the access time of the given filename is set to the value of atime. Otherwise, it is set to time.

Description

Attempts to set the access and modification times of the file named in the filename parameter to the value given in time. Note that the access time is always modified, regardless of the number of parameters.

Version

PHP 4, 5

Return value

Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.