order by name text files

[Anon]

Hi,
I've another question to make!
I've a sequence of txt files which are built like this:
World$date.txt where $date is the date at the moment of the creation of the file.

I've also another sequence of files named region$date.txt.

My question is:
I've to make an archive page where I list the files named worldxxx.txt in a table, and the other files in another table and also, I've to read the file, read the first line and print to the screen the result linked to the page in this manner:
index.php?page=World101001.txt

Anyone can help me?

[matto]

read in the filenames using the dir object (see reference), fill an array with them:

$d = dir(".");
$filelist = array();
while($filename = $d->read())
{
if($filename != '.' && $filename != '..' & (some other criteria to filter the right files))
array_push($filelist, $filename);
}

now sort the array using one of the sort functions provided by php.

sort($filelist);

produce the link list:

foreach($filelist as $listentry)
{
$lines = file($listentry);
$firstline = $lines[0];

echo "<a href=index.php?page=$listentry>"
.$firstline
."</a><br>";
}

hope this matches your needs!