Keep 10 latest files in folder

[ahmed24]

I've got a folder called Photos, i want a php script to keep only the 10 latest files and delete everything else.

Any ideas how I can achieve this?

Thanks

[rainborick]

Crawl the directory and use filemtime() to check the last modification time on each file. The function returns a UNIX timestamp, which you can easily sort.

[brotherhood of LAN]

If you're on Linux, something like

ls -t | head -10

the -t flag in ls orders them by file modification time, if by that you mean 'latest' rather than file creation time.

head -10 is saying take the top 10 off the list.