Urgant help needed

compustorm

In part of my script i have a script to list all directorys inside of the folder MSG. Its lists them in a table with the pic env.gif next to each one. I know the code is badly formated but i urgantly need to make it list the folders in date order rather than simply in alphabetical order which is done as default. PLEASE please help. Thanks

The following is the code concerned:

if ( $view == 1 ) {
?>
<html>
<br>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="90%">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#8A9AAD"><p align="center"><font
color="#FFFFFF"><strong>FBI ONLINE</strong></font></p>
</tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="90%">
<td class="navtd"><table border="0"
cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<TBODY> <tr>

                    <td align="right"><a
                    href="index.php?post=1"><font class="navtd">New Post</font></a></td>
                </tr>

</TBODY> </table>
</td>
</tr>
</TBODY> </table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table width="90%" border="1" height="28" body bgcolor="#8A9AAD" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" bordercolor="#000000">
<tr>
<td width="6%"></td>
<td width="46%"><font color="#FFFFFF"><b>Subject</b></font></td>
<td width="22%"><font color="#FFFFFF"><b>Author</b></font></td>
<td width="26%"><font color="#FFFFFF"><b>Last post</b></font></td>
</tr>
</table>

</html>
<?php
chdir( MSG );
$dh = opendir( "." );
while ( ! ( ( $file = readdir ( $dh ) ) === false ) ) {
if ( is_dir( "$dirname/$file" ) )
print " ";
?>
<html>
</html>
<?php
if ( $file != "." ) {
if ( $file != ".." ) {
?>
<html>

<table width="90%" border="0" height="28" body bgcolor="#8A9AAD">
<tr>
<td width="6%"><img src="env.gif" width="19" height="14"></td>
<td width="46%">
<?php
$nfile = str_replace("~"," ",$file);
echo "<a href='index.php?show=1&item=$file'>$nfile</a>";
?>
</td>
<td width="22%">
<?php
chdir( $file );
include ("author.htm");
chdir( ".." );
?>
</td>
<td width="26%">
<?php
chdir( $file );
include ("last.htm");
chdir( ".." );
?>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

</html>
<?php
$nd == $file;
}
}
}
closedir( $dh );
}

compustorm

Also inside the table it includes the file author.htm and another file.

compustorm

This really is urgant. please!

stolzyboy

check this out found it at www.php.net, didn't really look too closely though

Sometimes happens that you need to sort your files by date , but using associative arrays you won't be able to list files that were written in the same second (rarely , but with CMS system it's strangely frequent , doh!). Here's something that may come in hand in such a case. Code CAN really be improved (especially flags), but you can figure out the trick.

$dir = opendir($myDir);
while (($file = readdir($dir)) !== false) {
if ($file != "." and $file != "..") {
$fileTime=filemtime($docsPath.$file);
$stillExists = true;
while ($stillExists) {
$stillExists = validateTs($fileTime);
if (!$stillExists) {
$articlesToProcess[$fileTime] = $file;
}
else {
echo("<font color=\"red\" size=\"3\">found ts equals to another key. add 1 second and retry </font>
");
$fileTime++;
}
}

}
}
krsort($articlesToProcess);

Follow function that do the work

function validateTs($fileTime) {
global $articlesToProcess;
foreach($articlesToProcess as $key => $value) {
if ($fileTime == $key) {
return true;
}

}
return false;
}

compustorm

hmm thats not help at all. Thanks anyways

stolzyboy

did you even read it apparently it works, since the guy says

Sometimes happens that you need to sort your files by date , but using associative arrays you won't be able to list files that were written in the same second (rarely , but with CMS system it's strangely frequent , doh!). Here's something that may come in hand in such a case. Code CAN really be improved (especially flags), but you can figure out the trick.

compustorm

Well i read it but it didnt really look as though it can be incorporated into my code.

stolzyboy

ok, well don't say noone tried to help you then, just thought that since it is what you wanted, you could try something standalone with that code and if that worked than you could plop it somewhere in yours

maxpup979

its really not that tough of a problem. You may wish to restructure things a bit though. Instead of trying to do everything in one while loop, you may want to read the files (names and dates) into an array, then throw that through a usort (on the date field). Now you have an array that is sorted by date that you can loop across with no real difficulty. Hope this helps

compustorm

Well yea but its such a pain, ive have a better idea, im just gonna write each dir name to file as its created therefore creating a acurate list of date sorted names.

compustorm

I think im gonna die or something. Ive been coding all night and i cant complete it lol, i keep forgetting what im doing. Can someone please please edit that code so that instead of listing the directorys in the tablebit it will open the file index.txt in the directory MSG and then add the name line by line from that file?