Calling up only the most recent upload from a folder?

[Padgoi]

Hi, I have this very short php query that is simply calling up all uploaded files in a folder.  Here is the snippet:

 

	<? if($uploaded_files == "") echo "		<tr>
			<td colspan=\"2\" style=\"background: #fff; color: #000; text-align: center\"><br /><strong>There are no uploaded files.</strong><br /><br /></td>
		</tr>
"; else echo $uploaded_files ?>

 

The problem is, when it is echoing the $uploaded files, it is displaying ALL of the files from the folder.  I only want to show the very latest upload in that folder, only one (1), not all of them.  How would I go about doing this?  I appreciate any help.  Thanks in advance!

[premiso]

How are you reading the data into $uploaded_files ?

[Padgoi]

A few more snippets from the other file:

 

$upload_directory = "files/";
$upload_uri = $folder_directory."/files/";

 

And later in the file:

 

	$open = opendir($upload_directory);
$uploaded_files = "";
while($file = readdir($open)) {
if(!is_dir($file) && !is_link($file)) {
$uploaded_files .= "		<tr>
			<td style=\"background: #fff; color: #000; text-align: left; width: 70%\"><a href=\"$upload_directory$file\" title=\"$file (".filesize($upload_directory.$file)." bytes)\">".$file."</a> (".filesize($upload_directory.$file)." bytes)</td>";
if($allow_file_deletion)
$uploaded_files .= "
			<td style=\"background: #fff; color: #000; text-align: right; width: 30%\"><a href=\"?delete=$upload_directory".urlencode($file)."\" title=\"Delete File\">Delete File</a></td>";
else
$uploaded_files .= "
			<td style=\"background: #fff; color: #000; text-align: right; width: 30%\"></td>";
$uploaded_files .= "
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td colspan=\"2\" style=\"background: #eee; color: #000; text-align: left; text-indent: 20px\">Uploaded <strong>".date("F d, Y / h:ia", filemtime($upload_directory.$file))."</strong></td>";
$uploaded_files .="
		</tr>
";
}
}

function upload_file($upload_directory, $upload_uri) {
$file_name = $_FILES["userfile"]["name"];
$file_name = str_replace(" ","_",$file_name);
$file_path = $upload_directory.$file_name;
$temporary = $_FILES["userfile"]["tmp_name"];

$result = move_uploaded_file($temporary, $file_path);
if(!chmod($file_path,0777))
$message = "ERROR: A folder to place the files was not found, or the files need to be CHMODed to 777.";
else $message = ($result)?"File has been uploaded." : "An error has occurred.";
return $message;
}