php readdir ... order??

[nikefido]

What order does PHP read through a directory? I am getting a list of folders and files back when I recursively run through directories - however, they don't seem to be coming back in any particular order..

 

Does anyone have any light to shed on this matter? Perhaps a way to order the files?

[dptr1988]

The manual says that they are returned in the order that they are stored in the filesystem, which could be just about anything

 

 

http://us.php.net/readdir

 

You could read all of your filenames into an array and then sort the array with one of PHP's many array sorting functions

 

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.sort.php

[ucffool]

If you just want the list of contents, use scandir(). It will sort it alphabetically in ascending order by default, or with an optional flag set, in descending order.

[nikefido]

If you just want the list of contents, use scandir(). It will sort it alphabetically in ascending order by default, or with an optional flag set, in descending order.

 

Thanks I'll check this out. Right now it's using the directory helper found in the Code Igniter framework - which luckily is very easy to extend and hack. I'll try messing with it to get a file list in alphabetical order.

 

Thanks for the tips.

 

Please keep them coming if anyone has any other thoughts