Selecting newset image

[Ian_Wright]

My webcam puts new images in the same folder with the names imagexxx.jpg where xxx starts at 000 and increses by 1 every time a new image is added to the folder. I always want to display the latest image on my website - which suggests two possible tactics:-

1. strip out xxx and display image with largest value, or

2. identify latest file from date and time stamp on server

Which is easiest & what's the best way of starting?

Thanks,

Ian

[kburger]

Probably filemtime(). Put the files into an array and sort by this.

Edit: Just to flesh that out a little:

// for each file, do
$time = filemtime("$dir/$file");
$filearray[$file] = $time;
// then sort it in reverse order by mod time
arsort($filearray);