PHP file timestamp (change Attribut)

Question

I have some pictures in a folder and i rename them with PHP. Unfortunately the change Attribut is set to the current date and time. I just want to keep the original one. Is this possible?

Answer 1

Before the rename command, get the file's existing modification time using the filemtime() function, like this: $mtime = filemtime($file);

Then, after the rename command, set the modification time back to that value using the touch() function, like this: touch($file, $mtime, $mtime);

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• filemtime
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