Is this possible

[Anon]

Hi just a quick fire question with a simple problem that is causing me a lot of hassle

I am in the middle of creating a file manager (upload type thing). Everything is fine, however what I would like to do is complie a list of all files within a certain folder (any type of file), but only display the two newest files within that folder.

I was using the following to get and display the entire contents of the folder, but I am looking to use a limit as I mentioned above.

Has anyone any ideas, or atleast point me in the right direction

<?$dir = opendir("$folder_name");
while ($file[] = readdir($dir)) {

}

$num_files = count ($file);

for ($idx = 0; $idx < $num_files -1; ++$idx)
{

if ($idx < 2) {
echo (""); }

else {
echo ("$file[$idx]<BR>");
}

}?>

[Anon]

<?
$handle = opendir ('.');
while ($filename = readdir ($handle)) {
if ($filename != '.' && $filename != '..') {
$filemtime = filemtime ($filename);
$file_array[$filemtime] = $filename;
}
}
$newest_file_1 = array_pop ($file_array);
$newest_file_2 = array_pop ($file_array);

echo "
The two newest files in the directory are:
<br>
<br>
$newest_file_1<br>
$newest_file_2
";
?>

[Anon]

whoops, forgot one line
here's the corrected code:

<?
$handle = opendir ('.');
while ($filename = readdir ($handle)) {
if ($filename != '.' && $filename != '..') {
$filemtime = filemtime ($filename);
$file_array[$filemtime] = $filename;
}
}
ksort ($file_array);
$newest_file_1 = array_pop ($file_array);
$newest_file_2 = array_pop ($file_array);

echo "
The two newest files in the directory are:
<br>
<br>
$newest_file_1<br>
$newest_file_2
";
?>

[Anon]

Well I took your code, the corrected one, slapped it in and.........nuts, got this error message

Warning: Wrong datatype in ksort() call in d:\nusphere\apache/htdocs/one2create/uploader/login.php on line 81

Warning: The argument needs to be an array in d:\nusphere\apache/htdocs/one2create/uploader/login.php on line 82

Warning: The argument needs to be an array in d:\nusphere\apache/htdocs/one2create/uploader/login.php on line 83

any ideas what that means?

[Anon]

The code I posted analyzes the same directory that the script is in. Are there at least 2 files in that directory? You can change which dir it looks at in the line:
$handle = opendir ('.');
change ('.') to ('./whatever/')

[Anon]

My mistake, when making a mod to your script I was doing the following

$handle = opendir ('$folder_name');

when I should have done this:
$handle = opendir ($folder_name);

However one thing I have noticed, its only pulling in the latest file, not the latest two - any ideas why?>