View files on mainpage from a folder starting with the newest text file edited!

[ztealmax]

Hi i small question or big ;)

I wish to scan a folder for text files, and show textfiles on mainpage one at the time, begining with the newest file
edited, is this possible? (Maybe get files with edit dates and time? and there after display latest file)


i use this script for showing all files in a folder
[sup]<?
           if ($dir = @opendir("news/"))
           {
               while (($file = readdir($dir)) !== false)
               {
                   if($file != ".." && $file != ".")
                   {
                       $filelist[] = $file;
                   }
               }
               closedir($dir);
           }
           ?>
<form>
           <select name="selected_dir" >
           <?php
           asort($filelist);
           while (list ($key, $val) = each ($filelist))
           {
               echo "<option>$val</option>";
           }
           ?>
            </select>
</form> [/sup]

[taith]

just as a suggestion... its ALOT faster to use glob() to get files :-)
[code]
<?
$filelist=glob("news/*.txt");
?>
[/code]

[ztealmax]

[quote author=taith link=topic=116995.msg477020#msg477020 date=1164987641]
just as a suggestion... its ALOT faster to use glob() to get files :-)
[code]
<?
$filelist=glob("news/*.txt");
?>
[/code]
[/quote]
Thanx , yeaa just tried it mush better :P im a bit of a noob ;) anyway to open files to read files starting with the newest first, and set others as number links?

BTW im not using sql ;) so you all know :p


:D

[keeB]

You can use the stat function.

PLenty of examples: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.stat.php

:)

If you need any more help, just let me know!

[taith]

heres how you get the time of when the file was made
[code]
date("F d Y H:i:s", filemtime($file));
[/code]

[ztealmax]

[b]keeB[/b] checked it out, cant seem to find what im after, but maybe im just missing it!

[ztealmax]

how do i make it so it reads the latest edited file in that folder?
i meen like it scans all files in the folder then opens the latest file for viewing, and after that it sort the rest of the files in date order as number links for ex:

[img]http://cms.indivi.se/filesread.png[/img]
Yea iknow im a noob ;)

thinking of trying to smash codes togheter got these right now:

scanfolder.php
[code]<?
$filelist=glob("news/*.txt");
?>
           <form>
           <select name="selected_dir" >
           <?php
           asort($filelist);
           while (list ($key, $val) = each ($filelist))
           {
               echo "<option>$val</option>";
           }
           ?>
            </select>
</form>
[/code]

read.php
[code]<?php
$filename = 'news/news.txt';
if (file_exists($filename)) {
   echo "$filename was last modified: " . date ("F d Y H:i:s.", filemtime($filename));
}
// set file to read
$file = 'news/news.txt';
// open file
$fh = fopen($file, 'r') /*or die('Could not open file!')*/;
// read file contents
$data = fread($fh, filesize($file)) /*or die('Could not read file!')*/;
// close file
fclose($fh);
// print file contents
echo $data;
?>[/code]
As you can see i can only open one file in this read script, and that is what i tell it to open
in this example i use [i]news.txt[/i]

Just not sure how im suppose to do it ;)

[keeB]

[code=php:0]
<?php
// outputs e.g.  somefile.txt was last modified: December 29 2002 22:16:23.

$filename = 'somefile.txt';
if (file_exists($filename)) {
  echo "$filename was last modified: " . date ("F d Y H:i:s.", filemtime($filename));
}
?> [/code]

[ztealmax]

yea i got it to tell me what date is was latest modified, what im after is that it opens the file
for view/read from the folder news/ and only the file that was last modified / edited
and places all other content as links as i demostrated on pic above :)

Im sorry if im not clear to what i meen , my english isnt that good :)

[taith]

oy... enough of this... improvising time!

[code]
<?
if($dir = @opendir("news/")){
while(($file = readdir($dir)) !== false){
  if($file != ".." && $file != "."){
  $date=date ("YmHis.", filemtime($filename));
  $filelist['$date'] = $file;
  }
}
closedir($dir);
}
?>
<form>
<select name="selected_dir" >
<?php
ksort($filelist);
while(list ($key, $val) = each ($filelist)){
echo "<option>$val</option>";
}
?>
</select>
</form>
[/code]
hows that work? you might need a different sort...

[ztealmax]

[quote author=taith link=topic=116995.msg477108#msg477108 date=1164994911]
oy... enough of this... improvising time!

[code]
<?
if($dir = @opendir("news/")){
while(($file = readdir($dir)) !== false){
  if($file != ".." && $file != "."){
   $date=date ("YmHis.", filemtime($filename));
   $filelist['$date'] = $file;
  }
}
closedir($dir);
}
?>
<form>
<select name="selected_dir" >
<?php
ksort($filelist);
while(list ($key, $val) = each ($filelist)){
echo "<option>$val</option>";
}
?>
</select>
</form>
[/code]
hows that work? you might need a different sort...
[/quote]

it work as such as it only showed file ending with 4 / news4.txt
http://cms.indivi.se/test.php as you can see here :)

[img]http://cms.indivi.se/filesread2.png[/img]

Im sorry if im such a no0b :D

[taith]

i did say there may need a different sort(asort,ksort...)

to further it along...
[code]<?
if($dir = @opendir("news/")){
while(($file = readdir($dir)) !== false){
  if($file != ".." && $file != "."){
  $i++;
  $k=str_pad($i,7, "0",STR_PAD_LEFT);
  $date=date ("YmHis.", filemtime($filename));
  $filelist['$date'] = $file;
  }
}
closedir($dir);
}
?>
<form>
<select name="selected_dir" >
<?php
ksort($filelist);
while(list ($key, $val) = each ($filelist)){
echo "<option>$val</option>";
}
?>
</select>
</form>[/code]

[ztealmax]

Thanx sorry my english isnt that good ;)

im testing now:

http://cms.indivi.se/test.php

ok tested it now, it worked :) but i had to rename files so they dont contain any numbers in the names, when i did that
the date thingy worked great :D

thanx m8

Now how do i sort the remaining files as a text link [1][2].....
You got any idea? :D

[ztealmax]

hmm no it didnt work all of a sudden...weird

it must sort by name or something!

[taith]

[code]<?
if($dir = @opendir("news/")){
$i=0;
while(($file = readdir($dir)) !== false){
  if($file != ".." && $file != "."){
  $i++;
  $k=str_pad($i,7, "0",STR_PAD_LEFT);
  $date=date("YmHis", filemtime($file)).$k;
  $filelist[$date] = $file;
  }
}
closedir($dir);
}
?>
<form>
<select name="selected_dir" >
<?
krsort($filelist);
while(list($key, $val) = each($filelist)){
echo "<option>$val</option>";
}
?>
</select>
</form>[/code]

[ztealmax]

Im sorry im just not getting it to work :(

it stills seems to sort by filename

btw can i somehow change:

[code]<form>
<select name="selected_dir" >
<?
krsort($filelist);
while(list($key, $val) = each($filelist)){
echo "<option>$val</option>";
}
?>
</select>
</form>[/code]

to have this instead:
[code]<?php
$filename = 'news/news.txt';
if (file_exists($filename)) {
   echo "$filename was last modified: " . date ("F d Y H:i:s.", filemtime($filename));
}
// set file to read
$file = 'news/news.txt';
// open file
$fh = fopen($file, 'r') /*or die('Could not open file!')*/;
// read file contents
$data = fread($fh, filesize($file)) /*or die('Could not read file!')*/;
// close file
fclose($fh);
// print file contents
echo $data;
?>[/code]

ofcource filename equal what the date tells it should be $val i guess?

[taith]

no... on that webpage, its sorting by reverse key... xtx-->ztx-->xt that should be right... no? if its backwords... change krsort to ksort...

[ztealmax]

[quote author=taith link=topic=116995.msg477142#msg477142 date=1164998183]
no... on that webpage, its sorting by reverse key... xtx-->ztx-->xt that should be right... no? if its backwords... change krsort to ksort...
[/quote]

ohh ok, i thought we where trying to only show the file last modified? ;) "check it by date then show that file"

[taith]

with that code... you cant resort it down again... just put a limiter on how many it shows...
[code]<?
if($dir = @opendir("news/")){
$i=0;
while(($file = readdir($dir)) !== false){
  if($file != ".." && $file != "."){
  $i++;
  $k=str_pad($i,7, "0",STR_PAD_LEFT);
  $date=date("YmHis", filemtime($file)).$k;
  $filelist[$date] = $file;
  }
}
closedir($dir);
}
krsort($filelist);
while(list($key, $val) = each($filelist)){
if(!isset($p)){
  $p=x;
  echo $val;
}
}
?>
[/code]

[ztealmax]

[quote author=taith link=topic=116995.msg477150#msg477150 date=1164999046]
with that code... you cant resort it down again... just put a limiter on how many it shows...
[code]<?
if($dir = @opendir("news/")){
$i=0;
while(($file = readdir($dir)) !== false){
  if($file != ".." && $file != "."){
   $i++;
   $k=str_pad($i,7, "0",STR_PAD_LEFT);
   $date=date("YmHis", filemtime($file)).$k;
   $filelist[$date] = $file;
  }
}
closedir($dir);
}
krsort($filelist);
while(list($key, $val) = each($filelist)){
if(!isset($p)){
  $p=x;
  echo $val;
}
}
?>
[/code]
[/quote]

ahh okej...

[ztealmax]

no one knows how to do this?  ::)

[ztealmax]

hmm ok, but what i really are after is for it to open and read the file that was last modified in the folder!
for example are there 3 files:
file.txt      modified 2006-12-01 22:00
test.txt    modified 2006-12-01 22:05
gurka.txt  modified 2006-12-01 22:10

So what i need the script to do is open file names gurka.txt as that is the one last modified

[ztealmax]

Guys i really need help with getting it to read the last file edited or created

Doesnt anybody know exactly how to do this? ;)

//Cheers

[ztealmax]

Now i have the date thingy working
This gives me a list of all files in my folder news/
and sets the latest file edited on the first row:
[code]<?php
$this = $PHP_SELF;
$dir  = $DOCUMENT_ROOT."news/";

$files = opendir($dir);
$file_list = array();
$file_sort = array();

if(empty($sort))$sort="name";
if(empty($r)) $r=0;

$cnt = 1;

    while ($file = readdir($files))
{
$full_path = $dir."/".$file;
if(!is_dir($full_path))
{
$ext = explode(".",$file);
$i=count($ext);
if($i>1)$file_details["ext"] = strtolower($ext[$i-1]);
$file_details["name"] = $ext[0];
$file_details["date"] = filectime($full_path);
$file_list[$cnt] = $file_details;

$key = strtolower($file_details[$sort]);
$file_sort[$cnt] = $key;

$cnt++;
}
}

if($r)arsort($file_sort);
else asort($file_sort);


?>
<link href="../webmax.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

<table width="465" border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" class="bodytext">
  <tr>
    <td width="174"><a href="<?php print($this);?>?sort=name&r=<?php print(!$r);?>">Name</a></td>
    <td width="141"><a href="<?php print($this);?>?sort=date&r=<?php print(!$r);?>">Date</a></td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="#0033CC">
    <td height="3" colspan="5"> </td>
  </tr>
<?php
while(list($key, $value)=each($file_sort))
{
$value = $file_list[$key];
?>
  <tr>
    <td width="174"><?php print($value["name"]);?></td>

    <td width="141"><?php print(date("Y/m/d H:i",$value["date"]));?></td>
  </tr>
<?php
}
?>
</table>[/code]

Now for a follow up question
How can i now read only that file (latest modified) with this code (needs modification):
[code]<?php
$filename = 'news/*.*';

// set file to read
$file = 'news/info.txt';
// open file
$fh = fopen($file, 'r') /*or die('Could not open file!')*/;
// read file contents
$data = fread($fh, filesize($file)) /*or die('Could not read file!')*/;
// close file
fclose($fh);
// print file contents
echo $data;
?>[/code]

[ztealmax]

Guess no one knows what the hell im talking about ;)