RE: [PHP] sorting files in directory

2002-11-27 Thread James E Hicks III
I've done this by reading the directory contents into an array and then sorting that array. This really sorts on filename and not date, but your filenames seem to contain dates so this might work for you. James Hicks -Original Message- From: Nick Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: [PHP] sorting files in directory

2002-11-27 Thread Marek Kilimajer
Yes, you do. Add each dir to an array, sort the array, then loop through it printing the dirs out. Nick Wilson wrote: Hi all, I have several directories filled with files written like this: * 02-09-19-filename.etc * 02-10-02-anotherfile.whatever How does php order these files if read

Re: [PHP] sorting files in directory

2002-11-27 Thread Marek Kilimajer
Justin French wrote I think PHP reads them in date created order, or something else... The order is not guarantied, it just happens to be so. I suppose most filesystems return files in the order they were added to the directory, but also reuse the space left after deleting a file. --

Re: [PHP] sorting files in directory

2002-11-27 Thread Nick Wilson
* and then Justin French declared How does php order these files if read from the directory and printed to the screen? -- I need them in date order, do I need to sort them somehow? There's an optional second parameter for asort() and rsort(), so check it out in the manual... it