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vernonw58443027
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February 14, 2024
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PHP Date Sort using scandir()

  • February 14, 2024
  • 1 reply
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I have been racking my brain with this with no obvious solution. For the life of me I cannot sort the following by date. When I run it I get the following output where 2024-02-01 should be before 2024-02-13:

  • 2024-01-30
  • 2024-02-13
  • 2024-02-14
  • 2024-02-01

//PATH

$dirPath    = 'INuploads';
// $dirPath contain path to directory whose files are to be listed 
$files = scandir($dirPath); 
//SORT
usort($files);
//PRINT OUT RESULTS
foreach ($files as $file) {
    $filePath = $dirPath . '/' . $file;
    if (is_file($filePath)) {
        echo "<a href='INuploads/$file' target=new>" . $file . "</a>". date ("Y-m-d", filemtime("$dirPath/$file"));
     }
 
Any suggestions would be greatly appriciated. I have tried many different variotions of this, arsort, sort, ksort
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    osgood_
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    February 14, 2024

    Does this improve anything:

     

    <?php
    $dirPath  =  'INuploads';
    $files = scandir($dirPath);

    function sortFilesFunction($a, $b) {
    return strtotime($b) - strtotime($a);
    }

    sort($files, "sortFilesFunction");

    foreach($files as $file) {
    if (!in_array($file, array(".", ".."))) {
    echo "<p><a href='INuploads/$file' target='new'>$file</a></p>";
    }
    }

    ?>
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