Re: sorting directory contents

"WILSON, Nick" wrote: > You could use a system command via exec, ie > exec("ls -1", $dirlist); > > Assuming you are running on a *nix system. If you are going to do that you might as well read the dir in PHP and sort it there and save yourself the overhead of invoking an external command, making it UNIX dependant, filtering out '.' and '..' etc etc. Joseph, bite the bullet and do it in PHP. Sooner or later something will have to read the whole list into memory... I'll take a chill-pill now. -- Simon Edwards Animated Design, Melbourne http://www.animated.net.au/ Ph: (03) 98850990