Sorting files by date

[lion cave]

Hello,

I would like to ask on how to sort files by date modified and displaying the top 20 latest date.

Heres, my sample function that would return the files to be displayed

function get_dir_file($dir_path)
{
$file_arr = array();

    if ($handle = opendir($dir_path)) {
       while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) 
	{
	if ($file != "." && $file != ".." ) 
	{
	    $file_arr[] = $file;
	}
	}
     closedir($handle);
}

return file_arr;
}

This function should return an array that are sorted already.

I would like to ask how to sort this files by date (return and order by: only top 20 latest date).

Any suggestions is appreaciated.. Thnks.:)

[Dormilich]

looks like a job for filemtime().

[lion cave]

how to sort date

Thanks for that suggestion..

I would like to ask on how to sort dates. from the latest date.

[Dormilich]

I'd try something like: making an associative array with the filenames associated to the timestamps. then you can use arsort() (or related) to sort the array, cut off after 20 elements and extract (if needed) the filenames.