PHP (folder) File Listing in Alphabetical Order?

Question

I'm not sure how simple this would be, but I'm using a script which displays the files from a specific folder, however I'd like them to be displayed in alphabetical order, would it be hard to do this? Here's the code I'm using: ``` if ($handle = opendir($mainframe->getCfg( 'absolute_path' ) ."/images/store/")) { while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) { if ($file != "." && $file != "..") { if (($file != "index.html")&&($file != "index.php")&&($file != "Thumbs.db")) { $strExt = end(explode(".", $file)); if ($strExt == 'jpg') { $Link = 'index.php?option=com_shop&task=deleteFile&file[]='.$file; $thelist .= ''.$file.''." "; $thelist .= '

'." "; } } } } closedir($handle); } echo $thelist; ``` :)

Accepted Answer

Instead of using `readdir` you could simply use `scandir` (documentation) which sorts alphabetically by default.

The return value of `scandir` is an array instead of a string, so your code would have to be adjusted slightly, to iterate over the array instead of checking for the final `null` return value. Also, `scandir` takes a string with the directory path instead of a file handle as input, the new version would look something like this:

```
foreach(scandir($mainframe->getCfg( 'absolute_path' ) ."/images/store/") as $file) {
  // rest of the loop could remain unchanged
}
```

PHP (folder) File Listing in Alphabetical Order?

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