How to Sort/Include directory files...

F_Meijer

Hi everyone,

I've recently started with PHP and i'm running into some problems. I've tried doing a search on this forum but couldn't find what I needed.

From the index.php I want to include any .news files so all I need to do to update my news is add a new .news file.

This works but only reads one single file...
<?php
include('news/20032002.news');
?>

I know I can add it again pointing to the new .news file but this is what i'm trying to avoid obviously.

So far all I can do is display the contents of the news directory like this:

<?php
if ($handle = opendir('news')) {
while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
echo "$file\n";
}
}
closedir($handle);
}
?>

Here is my directory structure: (p.s. I'm using XP pro IIS)

wwwroot/
default.htm

wwwroot/MyPage/
index.php

wwwroot/MyPage/news/
20032002.news
21032002.news

(Within the .news files is a html table and the actual news)

I hope someone can help me with this...

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I did:
<?php
if ($handle = opendir('news')) {
while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
chdir("news");
include("$file");
chdir("../");
}
}
closedir($handle);
}
?>

And it seems to work almost exactly like I want it to. I need it check for date and time now in order to get the latest .news file on top in my page. Here is where I have no cleus at all how to do that so If anyone could help me with that It would be greatly appreciated

barand

When you read the directory list, store the files in an array with key = filename and value = [man]filectime[/man].

Sort the array using [man]asort[/man]

Traverse the array and include them in turn

hth

F_Meijer

If i'm not mistaking filectime gives me the time the file has last been changed. Meaning If I for some reason edit old news it will go to the top of the page. What I would like to do is to sort by filename.

Besides that I shamefully have to admit that I don't know how to work with arrays yet :rolleyes:

Any hints/tips for me there would be great 😉

barand

What I would like to do is to sort by filename.

I thought you wanted the latest first - date sort?

Having looked at your file names, change the convention to YYYYMMDD.news and a descending filename sort will work.

if ($handle = opendir('news')) { 
while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) { 
    if ($file != "." && $file != "..") { 
    $filearray[] = $file; //add filename to array
    } 
} 
closedir($handle);
} 
rsort($filearray); // reverse sort on filename 
foreach ($filearray as $f) {
    include ("news/$f");
}

Untried but I hope this helps

F_Meijer

Works perfectly thanks! Now I feel bad that I didn't figure it out myself 🙂 Ah well, live and learn... I do get what's going on btw, so I did learn something 🙂

Thanks again!