How to sort files by date in PHP

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This would get all files in path/to/files with an .swf extension into an array and then sort that array by the file’s mtime

$files = glob('path/to/files/*.swf');
usort($files, function($a, $b) {
    return filemtime($b) - filemtime($a);
});

The above uses an Lambda function and requires PHP 5.3. Prior to 5.3, you would do

usort($files, create_function('$a,$b', 'return filemtime($b)-filemtime($a);'));

If you don’t want to use an anonymous function, you can just as well define the callback as a regular function and pass the function name to usort instead.

With the resulting array, you would then iterate over the files like this:

foreach($files as $file){
    printf('<tr><td><input type="checkbox" name="box[]"></td>
            <td><a href="%1$s" target="_blank">%1$s</a></td>
            <td>%2$s</td></tr>', 
            $file, // or basename($file) for just the filename w\out path
            date('F d Y, H:i:s', filemtime($file)));
}

Note that because you already called filemtime when sorting the files, there is no additional cost when calling it again in the foreach loop due to the stat cache.

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