Modify this function to display layouts by Date Added

I have a function like so:

if ($handle = opendir('layouts')) {
   while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
       if ($file != "." && $file != "css" && $file != "..") {
           $files[] = $file;
       }
   }
   closedir($handle);
}

$array_lowercase = array_map('strtolower', $files);
array_multisort($array_lowercase, SORT_ASC, SORT_STRING, $files);

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and then I use a for loop to echo each of the files

for($e=$perpage*($page-1);$e<$last;$e++){

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How could I get it to display the latest 20 files added by file date? At the moment its in alphabetical order

Cheers

 

Try this.

$filetimes = array_map('filectime', $files);
array_multisort($filetimes, SORT_NUMERIC, SORT_DESC, $files);
unset($filetimes);

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$files should not be sorted by file creation time, in descent order.

 

I'm getting a huge error listing for all the files like so:

Warning: filectime() [function.filectime]: Stat failed for image-of-tigers.jpg (errno=2 - No such file or directory) in

 

This is what I got now

<?php
if ($handle = opendir('layouts')) {
   while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
       if ($file != "." && $file != "css" && $file != "..") {
           $files[] = $file;
       }
   }
   closedir($handle);
}

$array_lowercase = array_map('strtolower', $files);
$filetimes = array_map('filectime', $files);
array_multisort($filetimes, SORT_NUMERIC, SORT_DESC, $files);
unset($filetimes);

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it prints out lines of that error, and the displays them as they normally would without the added code

 

My bad, I forgot you didn't include the directory names in the $files array. This does work. (Tested)

if ($handle = opendir('layouts')) {
   while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
       if ($file != "." && $file != "css" && $file != "..") {
           $files[] = "layouts/{$file}";
       }
   }
   closedir($handle);
}

$filetimes = array_map('filectime', $files);
array_multisort($filetimes, SORT_NUMERIC, SORT_DESC, $files);
unset($filetimes);

// Get rid of directory names
$files = array_map('basename', $files);

print_r($files);

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Works a treat, I figured thats what was going on but didn't know how to implement it inject layouts/ before each value in the array.

Cheers nico, you've come to the rescue. Yet again