Re: Opening and reading director produces random order

Jeffry Killen wrote: > On Dec 9, 2014, at 12:13 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > >> On 9 December 2014 20:05:42 GMT+00:00, Jeffry Killen >> <jekillen@prodigy.net> wrote: >> >>> @$_dr = opendir($_dir); >> >> I believe the natural order of a directory listing on linux is by the >> internal inode number. The readdir() documentation[1] states: | Returns the name of the next entry in the directory. The entries are | returned in the order in which they are stored by the filesystem. >> It should be easy though to put the listing >> results into an array first and then sort that however you wish. ACK. Or use scandir()[2]. >> Also, one thing you should always avoid is the use of @ to suppress >> errors. If you think your code will cause an error, code defensively, >> or at the least use exception handling. > > Thank you for the info: > As far as not using @ to surpress errors, I am also aware of using try > and catch slowing the code execution down. AFAIK, the @ operator does also slow down the code. > I don't want a page with only an error message smeared over it and > nothing else. So why is it a bad thing? Because it could hide unexpected notices/warnings. And in a production environment display_errors is turned off (well, it should be), so you won't see the error message on the page, anyway. [1] <http://php.net/manual/en/function.readdir.php> [2] <http://php.net/manual/en/function.scandir.php> -- Christoph M. Becker