Re: GLOB sort order

Georgi Ivanov wrote:

On Tuesday 22 November 2005 11:41, Mark Lucas wrote:

Can anyone help me please? I'm not an advanced PHP user! I'm looing for a way to sort the array returned by the GLOB function. I would like to be able to sort the result by filemtime. Any good ideas?

I think you can walk the array returned by glob and create a hash : $arr=glob(..); foreach($arr as $file){

// you can also write this like so, sometimes useful for keeping code compact and minimizing variable usage: foreach(glob(/* bla bla */) as $file) {

$stat=stat($file); $mtime=$stat[mtime];

// don't forget to use quotes!: $mtime=$stat['mtime'];

$new[$file]=$mtime; } Now you should have array like this : foo.txt => 19879823 foo1.txt => 1987987998 Now you can use array_sort function to sort the new array.

array_multi_sort() is a slightly different way of doing the same thing, sometimes handy when you need to be able to switch between different sort orders: $mFilesFound = glob(/* bla bla */); foreach ($mFilesFound as $file) { $mTimes[] = filemtime($file); } array_multisort($mTimes, SORT_DESC, $mFilesFound);

Good luck.

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