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

Or you can create function for the latest 5 files in specified folder.

private function getlatestfivefiles() {
    $files = array();
    foreach (glob("application/reports/*.*", GLOB_BRACE) as $filename) {
        $files[$filename] = filemtime($filename);
    }
    arsort($files);

    $newest = array_slice($files, 0, 5);
    return $newest;  
}

btw im using CI framework. cheers!