Sometimes, we want to sort files by date in PHP.
In this article, we’ll look at how to sort files by date in PHP.
How to sort files by date in PHP?
To sort files by date in PHP, we can use the filemtime and usort functions.
For instance, we write
$files = glob("path/to/files/*.swf");
usort($files, function ($a, $b) {
return filemtime($b) - filemtime($a);
});
to get the files with the swf extension with glob in the path/to/files folder.
Then we call usort to sort the $files by the file date with a function that gets the time of each file and compare them.
We get the file date with filemtime and then sort them in descending order with
filemtime($b) - filemtime($a)
The $files array is then sorted in place.
Conclusion
To sort files by date in PHP, we can use the filemtime and usort functions.
