opendir

[chrisleon]

I took the statement below from zend.com, and it mentions that the filenames are not returned in any order. I would like to sort then somehow, but I have been looking at sorting, and I have not found any real good resource. If you can help me sort by size or alphabetically, that would be great,

"Returns the filename of the next file from the directory. The filenames are not returned in any particular order. Example 1. List all files in the current directory

<?php
$handle=opendir('.');
echo "Directory handle: $handle\n";
echo "Files:\n";
while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
echo "$file\n";
}
closedir($handle);
?>
"

thanks

[vsego]

Instead of echoing filenames, put them to array (along with any additional data) and then sort the array the way you want it.

[chrisleon]

Well, I have been reading up on how to sort array's, but the statement I use opens up the current directory and displays the files, excluding the . and .., How would I get all the files in the directory, and put them into an array?

thank you

[vsego]

This sorts your files by name. If you want to avoid ".", "..", directories or anything, you'll need to add one or more if()s. Check is_dir() and is_file() functions if you need that kind of filtering.

<?php
$handle=opendir('.');
$dir = array();
echo "Directory handle: $handle\n";
echo "Files:\n";
while ($file = readdir($handle)) $dir[] = $file;
closedir($handle);
sort($dir);
foreach ($dir as $file) echo "$file<br>\n";
?>

[chrisleon]

Thanks for replying to me. I tried something similar to that earlier, but I was missing some syntax that you helped me out with. It works great, and I just wanted to say thanks.

peace