Question

I am building a page navigation based on php files in a directory.

At the moment I have 5 files in my directory: index.php, 2.php, 3.php, 4.php, 5.php

With my limited PHP skills I have managed to work the code to display the navigation as: [2] [3] [4] [5] [index]

However I have hit a road block that is a little beyond me at this time.

I would like to have [index] displayed as [1], and I would like [1] to be displayed first.

I would like to have it look like this: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

<?php
    $pathfiles = "../directory/";
    $files = glob("../directory/*.php");
    foreach( $files as $file ) {
        echo '[<a href="'.($pathfiles).''
        .basename($file).'">'
        .basename($file, ".php").'</a>] ';
    }
?>

Any help or leads would be appreciated. Thank you in advance for your time.

Answer 1

You’ll need to push the index.php value to the top before iterating;

$key = array_search('index.php', $files);
unset($files[$key]);
natsort($files);
array_unshift($files, 'index.php');

Then, in your iteration, just look for the value index.php and change it to [1]