Recently I had to search through a php site to find what files had recently been recently modified. I wrote a script to do it heavily based on this one at coding forums posted by missing-score.

Here is the code I used:

function getDirectory( $path = ‘.’, $level = 0 ,$time){ 
  $ignore = array( ‘cgi-bin’, ‘.’, ‘..’ ); 
  $dh = ( $path );  
  while( false !== ( $file = readdir( $dh ) ) ){ // Loop through the directory 
    if( !in_array( $file, $ignore ) ){               
       if( is_dir( “$path/$file” ) ){
         // Its a directory, so we need to keep reading down…
          getDirectory( “$path/$file”, ($level+1),$time );            
       } else {
          if(filemtime(”$path/$file”)>$time){
           echo “ $path/$file  Last modified ” . date(”l, dS F, Y @ h:ia”, filemtime(”$path/$file”)).”
“;
         }
       }//elseif    
 
     }//if in array       
  
   }//while
   closedir( $dh );  
}//function
?>
     

Basically it loops over you directory structure starting from the base path you feed the function and spits out any files that have been modified after the timestamp you feed the function.