ginkworm

September 3, 2013

I have these files in a directory and can easily list to a webpage

However, i want to be selective and just select the most recent of each type, so instead of the whole list i want to display

Is there an easy way to do this or do i need to take apart the filename, put the date in a date object and then use it to sort.

my current code is:

public function getFiles() {

//return String, form as HTML later

$return = "";

// create a resrouce pointing to the directory with the files in it on disk

$dir = opendir('DIRECTORY');

//path to that directory that is appended to the URL

$actualdir = 'PATH FROM WEBSERVER ROOT';

// read the directory looping over the files and populate to an array

while ($entryName = readdir($dir)){

$dirArray[] = $entryName;

}

//close the directory as we don't need it anymore

closedir($dir);

//make a note of how many items are in the directory

$indexCount = count($dirArray);

//loop through the files building up a list of links

for($index=0; $index < $indexCount; $index++) {

if($dirArray[$index] !="." && $dirArray[$index] !=".."){

$return .= "<a href='"."$actualdir".$dirArray[$index]."'>".$dirArray[$index]."</a><br/>";

}

return $return;

}

any help is appreciated as this is my first day of PHP

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