Posted by Andy Hassall on 09/15/07 16:03

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 08:10:46 -0700, Semi Confused <PostInGroups@wherever.com>
wrote:

>$dir = opendir("thumbs");
>//read files in the dir
>while (($file = readdir($dir)) !== false)
>
>Was reviewing a few of the pages I made and something seemed odd.
>Further investigation showed that my thumbs are not in the order of the
>filesystem.
>
>So it starts at pic 1370 and ends back at 1359. In reality the pics
>start at 1359 and end at 1424. Maybe the question is how is the file
>system really sorted?

Yes.

>I haven't tried to implement the other methods shown this week and
>maybe one doesn't do this?
>or
>Readdir into an array?

Yes, or scandir() (which gives a sorted array), or glob() (which both filters
and sorts), but in either case you may still want a different sort order - in
particular look at natsort().

http://php.net/scandir
http://php.net/glob
http://php.net/natsort

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