Perl

Get a Remote FTP File's Creation Time by Name

Demonstrates the Chilkat Ftp2.GetCreateTimeByNameStr method, which returns the creation time of a named item in the current remote directory as an RFC 822 date-time string. The only argument is the filename.

Background: Creation time is the least commonly supported of the timestamps — many servers report only the modification time — so treat an empty or missing result as "not available" rather than an error. Where it is provided, it is useful precisely because it does not change when a file is edited.

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use chilkat();

$success = 0;

#  Demonstrates the Ftp2.GetCreateTimeByNameStr method, which returns the creation time of a named
#  item in the current remote directory as an RFC 822 date-time string.  The only argument is the
#  filename.

$ftp = chilkat::CkFtp2->new();

$ftp->put_Hostname("ftp.example.com");
$ftp->put_Username("myFtpLogin");

#  Normally you would not hard-code the password in source.  You should instead obtain it
#  from an interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.
$ftp->put_Password("myPassword");

$success = $ftp->Connect();
if ($success == 0) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$success = $ftp->ChangeRemoteDir("public_html");
if ($success == 0) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

#  Not all servers report a creation time.
$createTime = $ftp->getCreateTimeByNameStr("report.pdf");
if ($ftp->get_LastMethodSuccess() == 0) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

print "Created: " . $createTime . "\r\n";

$success = $ftp->Disconnect();
if ($success == 0) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}