Question

how come?
this works (counts the files in the dir correctly):

$result = count($files[0]);
echo $result;

and this works (gets the LAST (newest) file in the dir correctly):

$finalone = end($files[0]);
echo $finalone;

but this returns the single word “array”

$nfive = -5;
$lastfive = array_slice($files[0], $nfive);
echo $lastfive;

What I really want to do is pull the LAST 5 (last NEWEST) files from that dir.

Dennis

Answer 1

This portion of the code:

$nfive = -5;
$lastfive = array_slice($files[0], $nfive);
echo $lastfive;

Should be like this; note the print_r:

$nfive = -5;
$lastfive = array_slice($files[0], $nfive);
print_r($lastfive);

You have split one array into another array. So the echo behavior you explained is expected.