How to get X newest files from a directory in PHP?

Question

The code below is part of a function for grabbing 5 image files from a given directory.

At the moment readdir returns the images \'in the order in which they are sto

Answer 1

If you want to do this entirely in PHP, you must find all the files and their last modification times:

$images = array();
foreach (scandir($folder) as $node) {
    $nodePath = $folder . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $node;
    if (is_dir($nodePath)) continue;
    $images[$nodePath] = filemtime($nodePath);
}
arsort($images);
$newest = array_slice($images, 0, 5);