depends on how elegant you want:
passthru("ls -l | awk '{print $9}' "); //sort by name ascending
passthru("ls -lt | awk '{print $9}' "); //sort by modification time
descending
add -r to the ls command to reverse the order of either sort
instead of using passthru, you could use exec and pipe the information to
arrays.
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From: "php" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 5:24 PM
Subject: [PHP] A primary practicall for the pros- the easiest way to sort
files in a directory by name or date.?
> Hello friends,
> Here's the question that's bugging me, explanations are under the
> --------- line.
>
> How do you
> 1)Sort files in a directory by date and print/echo into an html format
> (and the latest article is.....)
> 2)Fastest way to list files by "<title>Page name</title>"
>
> ----------------------
> Say you have a directory that you want to sort by date/size/whatever/
> What do you think would be the best way to do it?
> arrays?
> MYSQL/or other DB?
> string comparison?
> other ideas?
> ----------
>
> My sysadmin insists on database implementation- however, i have a
> variety of clients that are scared of databases , or are simply
> content with the provider they have, that doesn't offer DB (yes, there
> are those still!)
> What do you think would be the fastest and easiest way to
> This is close to the famous "resource grabber" script, but not quite-
> we are talking about the basic principles of {parsing a document for
> certain info and echo/printing it out into html.
> To keep the long question short-
> -------------------------
> I, must confess that i have little experience with PHP-programming-
> the wonderful implementation of php-MySQL and ZEND makes it too easy
> for me to put everything into a database and forget the whole thing.
>
> ------------------------
> I believe that this matter is paramount because what we're dealing
> with is the most fundamental and practicall execution of a "site
> engine"/ "content management system"- i.e . the best and fastest code
> for sorting a directory by "<title>sort by html name </title>"
> or "sort by date"
> It is easily executed by XML or (RDF, etc)but, the question remains
> -what do you think is the best way to execute the sorting by PHP's
> sorting abilities?
> As far as i know, there is no title sorting in php, as opposed to
> perl/
> Am i wrong?
>
>
>
>
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