Answers for "php read modified date file inside folder"

php get file created date

$filename = 'somefile.txt';
if (file_exists($filename)) {
    echo "$filename last modified: ".date ("F d Y H:i:s.", filemtime($filename));
  	// somefile.txt was last changed: December 29 2020 22:16:23.
}
// filectime: when created
// filemtime: last modified
// fileatime: last accessed

php list directory files by date

function listdir_by_date($path){

  $ar = [];
  chdir($path);
  array_multisort(array_map('filemtime', ($files = glob("*.*"))), SORT_DESC, $files);
  foreach($files as $filename)
  {
    $ar[] = $filename;
  }

  return $ar;
}