Listing directory contents by filemdate

[Anon]

I am currently trying to list a directory by last modified first, and putting the listing into an array. Anybody have any ideas on how I would go about doing this? I have read and read, and I think I'm just confusing myself. The idea though that I have behind it is to create a loop to get the modified date of them, and then compare the two to see if the value is larger than the other, and then move it forward. Not sure though, any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Jason Bush

[Anon]

I meant filemtime()

[majik-sheff]

This might me overkill for you but this is a function that I made some time ago to do this sort of thing. The output of this will give you an idea of how to deal with the output:

<?PHP
$dirInfo = sort_files_by_attrib("./", 9);
print_r($dirInfo);

?>

And here's the actual function:

<?PHP
function sort_files_by_attrib($path, $attrib, $reverse = FALSE) {
//Sorts a directory listing by various attributes:
//13 = Name
//4 = UID
//5 = GID
//7 = Size in bytes
//9 = Mod Time
//Returns a multidimensional associative array

$handle = opendir($path);
if (!is_resource($handle)) return(FALSE);
while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
	$fullPath = "$path/$file";
	if (!(is_dir($fullPath) || is_link($fullPath))) {
		$fileInfo = stat($fullPath);
		if ($attrib != 13) {
			$sortOrder[$fileInfo[1]] = $fileInfo[$attrib];
		} else {
			$sortOrder[$fileInfo[1]] = $file;
		}
		$directory[$fileInfo[1]]['name'] = $file;
		$directory[$fileInfo[1]]['UID'] = $fileInfo[4];
		$directory[$fileInfo[1]]['GID'] = $fileInfo[5];
		$directory[$fileInfo[1]]['Size'] = $fileInfo[7];
		$directory[$fileInfo[1]]['Mtime'] = $fileInfo[9];
	}
}
if ($reverse) {
	asort($sortOrder);
} else {
	arsort($sortOrder);
}
$sortOrder = array_keys($sortOrder);
for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($directory); $i++) {
	$result[$i]['name'] = $directory[$sortOrder[$i]]['name'];
	$result[$i]['UID'] = $directory[$sortOrder[$i]]['UID'];
	$result[$i]['GID'] = $directory[$sortOrder[$i]]['GID'];
	$result[$i]['Size'] = $directory[$sortOrder[$i]]['Size'];
	$result[$i]['Mtime'] = $directory[$sortOrder[$i]]['Mtime'];
}
return($result);

}
?>