Displaying HTML links to files in alphabetical order?

[who]

Hello

I have a script that searches a folder on my server for pdf files then displays links to them on a web page in an unordered list. My questions is... is it possible to change the order that these files are displayed? Eg. alphabeticaly? I can't work out how these files are being displayed by default... it doesn't appear to be by modified date or alphabeticaly?

Any help greatly appreciated!

<?php 

    $dom = new DOMDOcument (); 
    $ul = $dom->appendChild ($dom->createElement ('ul')); 
     
    foreach (glob ('*.pdf') as $pdf) { 
        $li = $ul->appendChild ($dom->createElement ('li')); 
        $a = $li->appendChild ($dom->createElement ('a')); 
        $a->appendChild ($dom->createTextNode (str_replace ('_', ' ', pathinfo ($pdf, PATHINFO_FILENAME)))); 
        $a->setAttribute ('href', $pdf); 
        $a->setAttribute ('type', 'application/pdf'); 
    } 
     
    echo $dom->saveHTML(); 

?>

[Belrick]

Hi

I have a script that allows users to download pdf files from my site.

To make it simple as possible i just dump a new file in and thats it.

How i make it work is simple.

I turn the file name into effectively an array.

orderdisplayed_Title_FileDescription.pdf

                           $x = explode("_",$filename);
                           $title = $x[1];
                           $description = $x[2]; 

Order displayed is of course automatic as youve discovered. So just put A or B etc or 1 or 2 etc in the file name at start.

[NogDog]

You could simply assign the result of glob() to a variable, then apply the sorting function of preference (e.g. natcasesort()?) to that array, then run your foreach on the sorted array.

[Belrick]

You could simply assign the result of glob() to a variable, then apply the sorting function of preference (e.g. natcasesort()?) to that array, then run your foreach on the sorted array.

Nice

[who]

Thanks for your replies folks! I'll see what I can do!

[who]

OK... I'm rubbish at this and am having trouble. I've been trying this:

<?php 

    $dom = new DOMDOcument (); 
    $ul = $dom->appendChild ($dom->createElement ('ul')); 
    
    $articles = glob('*.pdf') as $pdf);
    
    rsort($articles);
     
    foreach $articles) { 
        $li = $ul->appendChild ($dom->createElement ('li')); 
        $a = $li->appendChild ($dom->createElement ('a')); 
        $a->appendChild ($dom->createTextNode (str_replace ('_', ' ', pathinfo ($pdf, PATHINFO_FILENAME)))); 
        $a->setAttribute ('href', $pdf); 
        $a->setAttribute ('type', 'application/pdf'); 
    } 
    
    echo $dom->saveHTML(); 

?>

I'm getting this error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_AS in.......

Any guidance would be so appreciated!

[NogDog]

    $articles = glob('*.pdf');
    
    rsort($articles);
     
    foreach ($articles as $pdf) { 

[who]

    $articles = glob('*.pdf');
    
    rsort($articles);
     
    foreach ($articles as $pdf) { 

Aha! I just couldn't see it...

Thank you so much NogDog!!! You're a star!!!