{"id":258,"date":"2019-01-18T14:29:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T19:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joonim.org\/?p=258"},"modified":"2019-01-18T14:29:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T19:29:22","slug":"php-how-to-list-files-in-a-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waterloobae.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/18\/php-how-to-list-files-in-a-directory\/","title":{"rendered":"[PHP] How to list files in a directory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The<strong><em> glob() <\/em><\/strong>function is used to get an array of filenames or directories. Then, <strong><em>array_multisort()<\/em><\/strong> function is sorting filenames according to the file&#8217;s created time. Lastly, it can be presented as intended with foreach looping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code\">$files = glob(\"\/Path_to_Reports\/*.csv\");\n\/\/ newer files come first by sorting as below\narray_multisort(array_map('filemtime', $files), SORT_NUMERIC, SORT_DESC, $directory);\nforeach ($files as $filename) {\n  echo '&lt;a href=\"' . $filename . '\" >' . basename($filename) . '&lt;\/a>&lt;br>';\n}<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The glob() function is used to get an array of filenames or directories. Then, array_multisort() function is sorting filenames according to the file&#8217;s created time. Lastly, it can be presented as intended with foreach looping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waterloobae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waterloobae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waterloobae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waterloobae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waterloobae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/waterloobae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waterloobae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waterloobae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waterloobae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}