Question

I’m looping through a directory and getting all the files using glob(). Is there a way to order the elements of the resulting array by the date/time they were created? Currently I’m using filemtime(), but that assumes that they were never edited.

Cheers!

Answer 1

You could try the following:

$array = glob("*.txt");
usort($array, function($a, $b) {
    $aTime = filectime($a);
    $bTime = filectime($b);
    if ($aTime < $bTime) {
        return -1;
    } elseif ($aTime > $bTime) {
        return 1;
    } else {
        return 0;
    }
});

That passes an anonymous function to allow user-defined sorting of an array. The function this time, checks and sorts depending upon the creation time (windows) / inode change time(linux) of the files returned by glob.

Hope this helps.

ise