Last modified variable about wet-boew-php

[upsonp]

@crochefort Actually I do something similar on the website I manage.

On my site I separate the "boilerplate" from the "content" file. The boilerplate makes all the required variant includes and sets all the required variables $_PAGE['lang1'], $_PAGE['left_menu_gauche'], $PAGE['title'.$_PAGE['lang1']], etc...

I have a strict file structure and naming scheme where content files are always in an "includes/" folder in the same directory as the boilerplate. Then I use PHP to get the last modified date of the content file, if it exists, as once a page is setup I rarely change the boilerplate.

if( file_exists($_PAGE['content']) ) {
    $_PAGE['modified'] = date ("Y-m-d", filemtime($_PAGE['content']));
} else {
    $_PAGE['modified'] = date ("Y-m-d", getlastmod());
}

I didn't include the method in the variant because I wasn't sure if it could be considered a good standard method of acquiring the last modified date, I figured some people might like to keep content and boilerplate in the same file while others might do what I do and have them separated.

I'm all for adding the method to the demos-php files if it's a desirable feature. You're also free to do what I did and create your own template files that have the required includes and variables and implement the last modified feature for your specific site.

[nschonni]

The Last Modified should reflect the date that the content was changed, which usually isn't related to the filesystem timestamp. There is a built in worker that will update the bottom of the page values as long as the meta tags are up to date.