Re: [Tutor] need help planning website updates

2005-01-20 Thread Jay Loden
Adding it into the PHP that creates the html would create too much overhead since it loads each page individually upon request, and that would mean running the modified time check on every page load.   But I was thinking about this after I sent the mail, and I think you have a point with just o

Re: [Tutor] need help planning website updates

2005-01-20 Thread Kent Johnson
It seems to me that if you want the five most recent changes, you don't have to keep a list of modified dates. Just get the modified date for all the files of interest and sort by date, then pick the top five. You could do this as part of your process to build the web site maybe? Kent Jay Loden

[Tutor] need help planning website updates

2005-01-20 Thread Jay Loden
I have a sort of simple CMS system on my website made from a conglomeration of scripts. On the left column, I want to add a feature that shows the last five items updated (only html & exe files in the /var/www/html/ for example) directory that I have updated, with each item as a link to the pag