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# touch

(PHP 3 <= 3.0.18, PHP 4 >= 4.0.0)

touch -- Sets access and modification time of file

## Description

``int touch` (string filename, int [time])`

Attempts to set the access and modification time of the file named by filename to the value given by time. If the option time is not given, uses the present time. This is equivalent to what utime (sometimes referred to as utimes) does.

If the file does not exist, it is created.

Returns `TRUE` on success and `FALSE` otherwise.

Example 1. touch() example
    if (touch ($FileName)) {
        print "$FileName modification time has been
               changed to todays date and time";
    } else {
        print "Sorry Could Not change modification time of $FileName";
    }

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