Re: question about reading directory contents

BBrazeau-/3NCOxi1wok@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> When I bring this over to linux, a ls  or ls-l will list the directories 
> in the same order but when viewed on the webpage there doesn't appear to 
> be any reason for the order of the files or directories.  I've tried 
> seeing if it had to do with modified time, size of files / directories, 
> even the order that they were created in.  In the 4 jobs that I created 
> and then uploaded files with different sizes, in differed order it would 
> always list the directory heading in the following
> specs
> coversheets
> other
> addenda
> Plans/Structural
> Plans/Title
> Plans/Mechanical
>
> Does anyone have an idea what is happening?

The Unix commands "ls" and "ls -l" sort their output alphabetically by 
filename by default.  I would bet that the PHP readdir() function works just 
like the C readdir() function, and reads the entries sequentially as they 
occur in the directory block(s).  That order is dependent on filesystem 
behavior.  Most Unix filesystems will fill the directory in the order of file 
creation.

--
Chris Johnson


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