glob() - sort by date

Question

I'm trying to display an array of files in order of date (last modified).

I have done this buy looping through the array and sorting it into another array, but is there an easier (more efficient) way to do this?

Answer 1

Did you find this? (Just did a Google search on your question title):

http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=188670

Answer 2

For the sake of posterity, in case the forum post linked in the accepted answer is lost or unclear to some, the relevant code needed is:

<?php

$myarray = glob("*.*");
usort($myarray, create_function('$a,$b', 'return filemtime($a) - filemtime($b);'));

?>

Tested this on my system and verified it does sort by file mtime as desired. I used a similar approach (written in Python) for determining the last updated files on my website as well.

Answer 3

<?php
$items = glob('*', GLOB_NOSORT);
array_multisort(array_map('filemtime', $items), SORT_NUMERIC, SORT_DESC, $items);