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romanos on 06/13/08

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List directory contents by date

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Loads the contens of a dir an sorts them by the date of creation.

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function listdir_by_date($path){
    $dir = opendir($path);
    $list = array();
    while($file = readdir($dir)){
        if ($file != '.' and $file != '..'){
            // add the filename, to be sure not to
            // overwrite a array key
            $ctime = filectime($data_path . $file) . ',' . $file;
            $list[$ctime] = $file;
        }
    }
    closedir($dir);
    krsort($list);
    return $list;
}

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Posted By: bdario on June 28, 2011

I noticed a problem on line 8. You wrote: $ctime = filectime($data_path . $file) . ',' . $file;

but I guess it have to be: $ctime = filectime($path . $file) . ',' . $file;

Am I wrong? Thank you for sharing

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