List all HTML files in directory from newest to oldest in PHP?

Question

How would i do that? I can do it normally without ordering by time but i cant figure this part out. (Newest at the top, oldest at the bottom).

Answer 1

you can call the function filemtime(filename) to get the time the file was last modified.  go through your files and then you can sort them.  below is some code i use to sort some files by last modified date.  The files are named 1.php, 2.php, 3.php... etc (but 2 may be modified more recently than 1 or 3, just depends.)

$number=1;

while (file_exists($number . ".php")) {

$array["number"][$number] = $number;

$array["mod"][$number] = date("YmdHis", filemtime($number . ".php"));

$number += 1;

}

array_multisort($array["mod"], SORT_NUMERIC, SORT_DESC, $array["number"], SORT_NUMERIC, SORT_DESC);

[EDIT]

to display...

foreach ($array["number"] as $number) {

$file = $number . ".php";

?>

<a href="<?echo $file;?>"><?echo $file?></a>

<?

}

instead of using numbers for file names, you can modify the for each.  i just found it easiest, and for what i needed to do fine, with 1.php, 2.php...

[/EDIT]

Answer 2

Real simple way of doing this..

<?php

$d = dir("/etc/php5");

echo "Handle: " . $d->handle . "\n";

echo "Path: " . $d->path . "\n";

while (false !== ($entry = $d->read())) {

   echo $entry."\n";

}

$d->close();

?>