filenames from a dir, into array, sorted by date?

[Fking]

is there a easy way to get the filenames from a dir, into an array, sorted by file creation date, or i have to code algorithm for that?

[rehfeld]

read the files into an array, then sort the array using usort()

for the user function you must call using usort() just compare the filectime()

[Frederick]

You can not get a file creation date, just last modified or last updated.
Saving an original (first time) file is the same as Modified.

By default, when you call and list files within a given directory, they are listed by "Last Modified Date".

From PHP.net:

Note: In most Unix filesystems, a file is considered changed when its inode data is changed; that is, when the permissions, owner, group, or other metadata from the inode is updated. See also filemtime() (which is what you want to use when you want to create "Last Modified" footers on web pages) and fileatime().

Note also that in some Unix texts the ctime of a file is referred to as being the creation time of the file. This is wrong. There is no creation time for Unix files in most Unix filesystems.

[Fking]

in my case last modification time is ok

but by default the file are sorted in aplphabet order

i need they to be in by date order in the array
i was thinking for creating array, with string
where the string is
date (some separator) filename, and to create some algorithm which sorsts the array by the date, and after that deleting it from the string, but i hope that there is better way?

maybe i can make the dir listing to be temporary in by date order?

[rehfeld]

i told you how.

look at usort()

another option would be to stat each file as your reading them, for example store the stat result as the array key

while($filename = readdir) {
    $key = filemtime($filename);
    $files[$key] = $filename;
}



// then sort the array.