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functions to retrieve the last modified date from files on remote servers.
very practical to check if a new version of a file is ready to download on another server.

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<?php

/*------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|                             PHParadise source code
|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| file:             remote last modified
| category:         date and time
|
| last modified:    Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:40:28 GMT
| downloaded:       Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:35:01 GMT as copy from textarea
|
| code URL:
| http://phparadise.de/php-code/date-and-time/remote-last-modified/
|
| description:
| functions to retrieve the last modified date from files on remote servers. very
| practical to check if a new version of a file is ready to download on another
| server.
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

function get_header_array($url)
{
	$url = ereg_replace('http://','',$url);
	$endHostPos = strpos($url,'/');
	if(!$endHostPos) $endHostPos = strlen($url);
	$host = substr($url,0,$endHostPos);
	$doc = substr($url,$endHostPos,strlen($url)-$endHostPos);
	if($doc == '') $doc = '/';
	$raw = get_raw_header($host,$doc);
	$tmpArray = explode("\n",$raw);
	for ($i=0;$i<sizeof($tmpArray); $i++)
	{
		@list($name, $value) = explode(':', $tmpArray[$i], 2);
		$array[trim($name)]=trim($value);
	}
	return $array;
}

// use like this to find out when a file on a server was last modified

// should be a static file like a .zip archive for example
$remote_file = 'http://fundisom.com/MakeNewFolderNamed.dmg';

$array = get_header_array($remote_file);

echo '
<p>
	'.$remote_file.' was last modified on '.date('j F Y',strtotime($array['Last-Modified'])).'
</p>';

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