How to make latest updates list to your site

[SilentUser]

I'm thinking about having a list of "latest updates" on my site.
So it basically should search new and modified files through the entire site and display them on the index page.
And the list should have recent updates like five or ten or... whatever the count of files would be.
When a new update is made it should be at the top of the list and the oldest one at the bottom.

This should be possible but...

...what about those pages which have a readdir() list of files from a certain directory already? If a new file is added to that directory it should be on that list too. The code on that page isn't changed so the page's timestamp is the same old one.

Any suggestions how to continue with this?

[planetsim]

Firstly there is a function in the file system called stat();

which chucks out an array. (Read the Manual on stat(); )

basically you should have some sort of loop, probably a while loop, which will first get all the files in your site, than create a new array which holds the filename and the last modified date and any other information you wish for the array.

Then im not sure, maybe an array_sort() could do the trick.

Id be more helpful but i dont have any examples to show.