taking files from a folder in odd order

Anon

What ordering does the script, which takes all the files in a folder and performs functions on them, take the files? ive thought name, date, but it isnt that. I would like it, if possible to be reverse name order, or name order 😉 either isnt hard.

This is my script:

<?php
$handle=opendir("wishlist/gameplay/");
while ($file = readdir($handle)) {
if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
include ("wishlist/gameplay/$file");
echo "---CUT OUT as its way too long---";
}
}
closedir($handle);
?>

Anon

Isn't it in order of "creation" (ie. change) date? Whatever; it's the order in which the filesystem stores them, and can probably vary from system to system.

<table>
<tr><th>File</th><th>Change time:</th><th>Modification time:</th><th>Access time:</th></tr>
$handle=opendir("wishlist/gameplay/");
$while($file=readdir($handle))
{ if($file!='.' && $file!='..')
{ echo "<tr><td>$file</td><td>".
filectime($file).
'</td><td>'.
filemtime($file).
'</td><td>'.
fileatime($file).
'</td></tr>';
}}
</table>

But to get them into reverse name order, read them into an array first and then rsort() the array.

Anon

No luck, its just full of parser errors.

And if there a way i could get it to print what i want it to? rather than whats there??? I dont even understand it.

Anon

Well. It was just an exercise to try to see how the filesystem was ordering the files; I never ran it myself. There are php start and end tags to go in yet.

But as for your answer, read the last line of my post again.

Anon

Ive tried it, tried tob get it to work, but it doesnt do much. Only for the one file. i might as well stick with the order the server puts them in 🙁

Anon

Let's see what you've got. Remember, I'm marking this, so I expect to see good use of the rsort() function 🙂

Anon

<?php
$handle=opendir("wishlist/gameplay/");
while ($file = readdir($handle)) {
if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
$file_array[] = $file
}
}
closedir($handle);

rsort ($file_array);
echo "Here are the files in wishlist/gameplay/ in reverse order:
<br>
<br>";
foreach ($file_array as $value)
{
echo $value . '<br>';
}
?>

Anon

5/5 🙂