sorting a file listing help... 1

[admoore]

I display the results of a directory listing of available pdf reports like this:

// List bbcm
$current_dir = "/public_html/reports/bbcm/";
$path = "reports/bbcm/";
$dir = opendir($current_dir);

echo (&quot;<br><hr width=225 align=left>Brown Mesa<br>&quot;);
while ($file = readdir($dir))

{
if ($file!=&quot;.&quot; && $file != &quot;..&quot;)
{

echo (&quot;<a href=\&quot;$path$file\&quot; target=\&quot;reports\&quot;>$file</a><br>&quot;);
}}

I need to sort the results alphabetically.... Can anyone help here, I guess I need to 1st write to an array, then sort array? Any help is greatly appreciated...

-Allen

 

[sleipnir214]

I recommend, as you said, that you store the data in an array and sort the array.

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[admoore]

when I

$current_dir = "/public_html/reports/pi/";
$path = "reports/pi/";
$dir = opendir($current_dir);

echo (&quot;<br><hr width=225 align=left>pi<br>&quot;);
// write file names to array

$list = array (  while ($file = readdir($dir))  array(&quot;file&quot; => &quot;$file&quot;) );
// sort array

sort ($list);
// display sorted array as links

foreach ($list as $key=>$value){ print(&quot;$value&quot;);}

I must be doing something wrong, as I get a parse error on the line:

$list = array (  while ($file = readdir($dir))  array("file" => "$file") );

ideas?

 

[sleipnir214]

Yeah, quit trying to do it all in one line.

$list = array();
while ($file = readdir($dir))
{
$list[] = $file;
}

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[jem122974]

This exactly what I want to do, except I want it sorted backwards. How would I do that?

Thanks,
Jon Mitchell

http://www.ValleyViewBibleChurch.org

 

[danielhozac]

See

http://www.php.net/rsort.

//Daniel

 

[jem122974]

That is what I found in my O'Reilly book... Thanks...