Wrapped the above in a function, for easy use:function getMtime($filename, $server, $login, $pwd){ // set up connection $conn_id = ftp_connect($server) or die("ERROR:Could not connect to $server"); // login $login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $login, $pwd); // get the last modified time for our file $buff = ftp_mdtm($conn_id, $filename); // close the connection ftp_close($conn_id); if ($buff != -1) { // somefile.txt was last modified on: March 26 2003 14:16:41. return "$filename was last modified on : " . date("F d Y H:i:s.", $buff); } else { return "ERROR: Could not retrieve mdtime"; }}$filename='example.csv';$server='ftp.example.nl';$login='supersecureloginhere';$pwd='supersecurepwd';$mtime=getMtime($filename, $server, $login, $pwd);echo $mtime;