Script that can generate a listing of recently modified files

Question

Is there a script (PHP?) that I can install (via FTP) and run that will give me a listing of the files that are modified AFTER a particular date on the entire domain?

Answer 1

It's been years since I've last touched PHP, but if I recall correctly you can call an external (shell) command from it, and suck in the results. Under that assumption, if the server you're dealing with is a Unix/Linux box, you could call out to the 'find' command and let it do the work.

The basic syntax would be: find /your/web/root/here/ -mtime -5 -print if you wanted a list of all files modified in the last 5 days.

Just write a PHP wrapper around that command (modified as needed) to run it and display the results on a page for you. I think that should do the trick.