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[trevmart]

Hi,

 

I have a piece of code that reads the directory, generates links to another page named after the file name with the link to the actual file and a text description. That part is pretty straight forward from below. I also take out the _ and the .pdf or .doc extensions from the file name. The files are Named File_of_any_length_January_2007.pdf. I did some sub stringing to take out the date in a mm_yyyy form. I want to sort the file names based on this attribute and am having problems figuring out how to do it. I am pretty new to PHP so it may just be something obvious.

 

Any help would be much appreciated to get this thing finished.

 

Thanks

<? 
$path = "/free_library";
// Open the folder
$dir_handle = @opendir($path) or die("Unable to open $path");{
$filecount = "0"; //reset the number of files

while (false !== ($file = readdir($dir_handle))) {
if(preg_match("/\.pdf$|\.doc$/i", $file))
{
$fileList[] = trim($file); // add the file to an array so it can be sorted easily.
reset ($fileList); // go back to the top of the array
$filecount = $filecount + 1; //count the number of files
}
}

echo ' Number of Files in the Free Library: <b>'.$filecount.'</b><br><br>';
while (list ($key, $file) = each ($fileList)) {
$month = array("January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December");
$monthnumber = array("01","02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12");
$monthconvert = str_replace($month, $monthnumber, $file);
$monthclean = str_replace(".pdf", "", $monthconvert);
$length = strlen($monthclean);
$datepart = substr($monthclean,$length-7,$length);
$monthfinal = substr($datepart,0,2);
$strpubyr = substr($datepart,3,strlen($datepart));
$monthword = str_replace($monthnumber, $month, $monthfinal);
$strpubdate = $monthword . ', ' .$strpubyr;

$title = str_replace("_", " ", $monthclean);
$title = explode(".", $title);
$title = $title[0];
$title = str_replace($datepart,"", $monthclean);
$titlefinal = str_replace("_", " ", $title);

$name = $file;
$name = explode(".", $name);
$name = $name[0];


echo "<a href='research.php?varname=$name' class=black12>$titlefinal</a><br>$strpubdate<br/><br/>";

$ourFileName = "/free_library/des/$name.php";
$ourFileHandle = fopen($ourFileName, 'w') or die("can't open file");
fclose($ourFileHandle); 
$textcontent = file_get_contents("/free_library/des/$name.txt");
$myFile = "/free_library/des/$name.php";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
$stringData = "<span class=blackb16>Free Research Library</span><br><br>";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
$stringData = "<span class=blackb14>$titlefinal<br>$strpubdate</span><br><br>";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fwrite($fh, $textcontent);
$stringData = "<br><br><a href='/free_library/$file' target=\"new\" class=black12>Click to View</a><br><br>";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
$stringData = "<a href='../research.php?varname=free_library' class=black12>Return to Free Library Contents</a>";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);
}


closedir($handle);
}


?>

 

[Yesideez]

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