[RESOLVED] Read Files in Directory Alphabetically

middleman666

hey there,

I have a script that reads out files from a directory:

$mydir = ".";
$curdir=dir($mydir);

while($file = $curdir->read()) { 
     echo $file.'<br>';
}

But at the moment it's just listing the files in what seems to be any old order.

Is there a way of listing the files alphabetically?

Thanks.

NogDog

$files = glob('*');
natcasesort($files);
echo "<ul>\n";
foreach($files as $filename)
{
   echo "<li>$filename</li>\n";
}
echo "</ul>\n";

middleman666

Thanks, that worked great.

I have another bit of code that reads a directory:

$handle=opendir('files/');
$filelist = "";

while ($file = readdir($handle)) {

   if(!is_dir($file) && !is_link($file)) {

  $filelist .= '<table width="520" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1"><tr><td valign="top" width="110"><span class="Header">';

  $filelist .= "<a href='$upload_dir$file' target='_blank'>".$file."</a>";

  $filelist .= '</span></td><td width="300">';

  $filelist .= $fileurl.$file;

  $filelist .= '</td><td width="40" align="right">';

  if ($DELETABLE)
    $filelist .= "[<a href='?del=$upload_dir$file' title='delete'>delete</a>]";

  $filelist .= '</td><td width="70" align="right">';

  $filelist .= "[".date("d-m H:i", filemtime($upload_dir.$file))."]";

  $filelist .= '</td></tr></table>';

   }
}

I tried applying the same code to it to make it read out alphabetically, but didn't have much luck.

Is there a way to do the same with this code and keep the $filelist variable?

Thanks for your help.

Weedpacket

Obviously, you can't output filenames as you're reading them in, because for all you know the file that should go at the top of the list might be the last one you read. So you have to read them all, then output them all. So:

Read the filenames into an array.
Sort the array.
Build the $filelist string, getting the filenames from the array.

Oh, wait, that's what NogDog is suggesting.

middleman666

Ok, ended up with this:

$files = glob('files/*'); 
natcasesort($files); 

$filelist = "";

foreach($files as $filename) { 

$filename = substr($filename,6);

   if(!is_dir($filename) && !is_link($filename)) {

  $filelist .= '<table width="520" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1"><tr><td valign="top" width="110"><span class="Header">';

  $filelist .= "<a href='$upload_dir$filename' target='_blank'>".$filename."</a>";

  $filelist .= '</span></td><td width="300">';

  $filelist .= $fileurl.$filename;

  $filelist .= '</td><td width="40" align="right">';

  if ($DELETABLE)
    $filelist .= "[<a href='?del=$upload_dir$file' title='delete'>delete</a>]";

  $filelist .= '</td><td width="70" align="right">';

  $filelist .= "[".date("d-m H:i", filemtime($upload_dir.$filename))."]";

  $filelist .= '</td></tr></table>';

   }
}

Thanks.