How do it make this so it only gets the latest file in the list not all files

[ztealmax]

How do it make this so it only gets the latest file (Last modified file) in the list not all files

[code]<?php
$this = $PHP_SELF;
$dir  = $DOCUMENT_ROOT."news/";

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

if(empty($sort))$sort="date";
if(empty($r)) $r=1;

$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);


?>

<?PHP require_once("theme.php");?>
<table width="465" border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" class="smallblacktext">
  <tr>
    <td width="174"><?php print($this);?><?php print(!$r);?>Name</td>
    <td width="141"><?php print($this);?><?php print(!$r);?>Date</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"><a href="read.php?text=news/<?php print($value["name"]);?>" target="content"><?php print($value["name"]);?></a></td>
    <td width="141"><?php print(date("Y/m/d H:i",$value["date"]));?></td>
  </tr>

<?php


}
?>



</table>[/code]
Basicly what i  want the script to do is to only open latest file for read.
Thanx all for you help :)

//Martin

[artacus]

quick way would be to exit from your while loop after the first one.

[ztealmax]

[quote author=artacus link=topic=118949.msg486535#msg486535 date=1166342989]
quick way would be to exit from your while loop after the first one.
[/quote]
can you give me a example? ;)

[artacus]

Sure, after you try to do a couple examples yourself.

[ztealmax]

[quote author=artacus link=topic=118949.msg486542#msg486542 date=1166343953]
Sure, after you try to do a couple examples yourself.
[/quote]

well i did, didnt work did it , thats why i ask here.....