Display contents of files based on...

[adrian_quah]

Hello guys,
The code belows displays the contents of a folder..How do i get it sorted by their last modified date or file name?

while($file = readdir($dir)) 
	{
if (($file != "..") and ($file != ".")) 
		{
		//Download files with spaces fix
		$list .= "<tr bgcolor=FFFFCC><td><img src=$image_next align=absmiddle>&nbsp; <a href='$dl/$file'>$file</a> </center></td></tr>";
		$count++;	// Increase file count
		}
	}

thanks a lot😃

[barand]

You could store the names and dates in an array then call [man]usort[/man] to order as required.

[planetsim]

barand all very good, but i think he wants to know how to do it.
To do it read up on this function

fileatime

basic way of doing it from the Manual

int fileatime ( string filename)

oh and this one 2

filemtime

[adrian_quah]

yeap..I'd appreciate if someone could tell me how to do this...without involving databases..

[barand]

No databases ...

function byName($item1, $item2) {
	if ($item1['name'] < $item2['name']) {
		return -1;
	} elseif ($item1['name'] == $item2['name']) {
		return 0;
	} elseif ($item1['name'] > $item2['name']) {
		return 1;
	}
}

function byDate($item1, $item2) {
	if ($item1['mod'] < $item2['mod']) {
		return -1;
	} elseif ($item1['mod'] == $item2['mod']) {
		return 0;
	} elseif ($item1['mod'] > $item2['mod']) {
		return 1;
	}
}
$sort_by = "date";    // set to 'name' for name sort
$filearray = array();
$count = 0;
$dir = "./";			// set dir name
$handle = opendir($dir);
while($file = readdir($handle)) 
    {
	if (($file != "..") and ($file != ".")) 
        {
		$filearray[$count]['name'] = $file;
		$filearray[$count]['mod'] = fileatime($dir.$file);
		$count++;
        }
    }
// do the sort passing the name of the sort function to use.	
if ($sort_by == "date") {
	usort($filearray,"byDate");
} else {
	usort($filearray,"byName");
}
//list the files
echo "<table>";
foreach ($filearray as $k=>$f) {
	printf ("<tr><td>%s</td><td>%s</td></tr>", $f['name'],date("d M y",$f['mod']));
}
echo "</table>";

hth

[adrian_quah]

Barand,

Thanks a lot, i'll try it out now..Thanks, i rcvd this msg as i open my mail today 🙂

have a great day guys, or make one!

Adrian

[barand]

Just noticed

if (($file != "..") and ($file != ".")) 

should be

if (($file != "..") && ($file != ".")) 

EDIT : Both work! I've just learned something today.

[dugindog]

I am needing something similar to this, however when I ran it, I got errors and all of the dates were listed back to 1969

what I am looking for is a counter function that can the subfolders of a specified directory (not recursive)

need 3 variables at the output.

1) count modified (current day or previous day)
2) count created (current day or previous day)
3) total folders (may not be a simple add of 1 & 2)

using php5

if someone could help on this it would be greatly appreciated.