scandir order by date

[electricocean]

Hi, is there a way to do scandir and order by last file put in the folder (like newsest to oldest)?

thank,
electricocean

[coopster]

The second parameter of the function is the sort order.

array scandir [php.net] ( string directory [, int sorting_order [, resource context]] )

Note, the array will contain filenames as well as directory names. You would still need to test each entry to confirm it actually is a file.

[electricocean]

i am just looking for the number or the thing to write in the order part of the function...

[pnllan]

If you believe the PHP manual, then NO...there is no way to sort by date using ONLY SCANDIR.

The SORT param is alpha ascending (default), or inserting "1" as the param forces alpha descending,

[electricocean]

then how would get a whole list of files in a directory sorted by date created?

[coopster]

You will need to read the files in the directory into an array and get the filemtime [php.net] of each. Then sort the array by the filemtime.

[electricocean]

can you explain that a little more?

is scandir for php5? i have php4 on my server

[dmmh]

I think this should work:

<?
$path = '../images/temp/';
# Initialise list arrays, files and array counters for them
$f = 0;
$images_arr = array();
if (@$handle = opendir($path)) {
while (false!== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
if($file!= "." && $file!= ".." && $file[0]!= ".") {
$fName = $file;
$file = $path.'/'.$file;
if(is_file($file)) $nr_images++;
$images_arr_ftime[$f++] = filemtime($file); //<---- here it is, just a seperate array to store filetimes
$images_arr[$f++] = $file;
};
};
closedir($handle);
};
asort( $images_arr ); reset( $images_arr );
asort( $images_arr_ftime ); reset( $images_arr_ftime );

//test
for ($i=0; $i<$nr_images; $i++){
echo 'filename: '$images_arr[$i].' filetime: '.$images_arr_ftime[$i];
}
?>

[dmmh]

havent tested tbh, but oughtha work I guess

[dmmh]

a version that actually works:

<?
//phpinfo()
$path = 'images';
# Initialise list arrays, files and array counters for them
$t = 0;
$f = 0;
$images_arr['name'] = array();
$images_arr['time'] = array();
if (@$handle = opendir($path)) {
while (false!== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
if($file!= "." && $file!= "..") {
$fName = $file;
$file = $path.'/'.$file;
if(is_file($file)){
$images_arr['time'][$t++] = filemtime($file); //<---- here it is, just a seperate key in the array to store filetimes
$images_arr['name'][$f++] = $file;
};
};
};
closedir($handle);
asort( $images_arr['time'] ); 
asort( $images_arr['name'] );
}
//test
foreach ($images_arr['time'] as $key=>$ftime){
$fname = $images_arr['name'][$key];
echo '<strong>filename:</strong> '.$fname.' <strong>filetime:</strong> '.$ftime.'<br/>';
}?>