Dropdown selct list

PHP
1

Hello everyone,
I use this code to create a select dropdown list of folders in a directory:

<select id="target"  name="event">
        
        <?php 
            foreach(glob(dirname(__FILE__) . '/digital_orders/*') as $filename){
            $filename = basename($filename);
           
            echo "<option value='" . $filename . "' selected='" . $filename . "'>".$filename."</option>";
        }
        ?>
    </select>

I need to sort the values by date. I googled and find out somethingh like:

usort($filename, function($a,$b){return filemtime($a) - filemtime($b);});

I’m not able to work it out. Could anyone help me please?

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I would think you’ll need to separate the loop from the display. Pseudo-code:

create a blank array
foreach // as you have it
  append each file to an array as elelement ['name']
  add the filemtime() information to that array as ['ftime']
  end foreach
sort the array
loop through the sorted array to display

My guess on the sort would be more like

uasort($filearray, function($a, $b) {
  if ($a['ftime'] > $b['ftime']) return -1;
  if ($a['ftime'] < $b['ftime']) return 1;
  return 0;
 }
3

Thank you. I 'm not sure I 'll be able to do what you suggest. I’ll try

4

OK, if you run into problems come back and post the code, and people will try to help.

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