3 replies to this topic

[Tratos]

Ok, Say i have a directory with a few php files in it, for the sake of example let's call them file1.php, file2.php and file3.php. Each file contains the following;

<tr><td>
<span class="link"><a href="http://www.mywebsite.com">this is my link</a></span>
</td></tr>

Now, i want to include all the file's in that directory on a certain page within a table so that each file includes as a seperate table row, preferably with a single line of code, i woud like the page to auto-update of sorts when a new file is added to the directory. Can php do this? And are there any methods of php sorting and including the files based on their age?

Edited by Tratos, 06 July 2006 - 01:10 AM.

[DCoder]

opendir() opens a directory, readdir() returns a filename from that directory one at a time, stat() returns the file's statistics, including creation/modification time, asort() sorts an associative array by values.

So, the whole process would be like

$dir = opendir('/path');
while(($file = readdir($dir)) !== false)
{
 if(!in_array($file, array('.', '..'))
 {
  $stat = stat($file);
  $files[$file] = $stat['ctime']; //creation time, atime for last modification time, mtime for last modification time
 }
}
closedir($dir);
asort($files, SORT_NUMERIC); //sorts by time increasing, use arsort() to sort by time decreasing
foreach($files as $file => $time)
{
 // include file / whatever else
}

Edited by DCoder, 06 July 2006 - 04:30 AM.

[Tratos]

Cheers DC that helps a lot, following on from this; can i assign each filename as a variable without the extension?

And can i only return files in the directory with a certain extension i.e. .txt or .php?

[Mastermind]

if(strpos($file, '.php')!==false)

{

// do the add stuff here

}