php - readdir sort by filename where file name is the name of the months -

<?php $current_dir = "/members/downloads/board-meetings/2014/";    // full path directory $dir = opendir($current_dir);        // open directory  echo (""); while ($file = readdir($dir))            // while loop { $parts = explode(".", $file);                    // pull apart name ,     dissect         period if (is_array($parts) && count($parts) > 1) {         $extension = end($parts);        // set see last file extension      if ($extension == "pdf" or $extension == "pdf")    // pdf docs extention          echo "<li class=\"pdf\"><strong><a href=\"/members/downloads/board-meetings    /$file\" class=\"underline\" target=\"_blank\">$file</a></strong></li>";    //     if so, echo out!                } } echo "<br>"; closedir($dir);    // close directory ?> 

i hoping ask expert. code works great except site needs list filenames month. named like: january.pdf, february.pdf etc... , need listed in reverse monthly order. december.pdf, november.pdf etc... , get: october.pdf november.pdf april.pdf - way off base. ideas extremely appreciated.

during first iteration, calculate month ordinal number , create array whereby month kept in keys , file name in values.

$current_dir = "/members/downloads/board-meetings/2014/";    // full path directory $months = array('jan', 'feb', 'mar', 'apr', 'may', 'jun', 'jul', 'aug', 'sep', 'oct', 'nov', 'dec'); $dir = opendir($current_dir);        // open directory $files = array();  while ($file = readdir($dir)) {   $extension = strtolower(pathinfo($file, pathinfo_extension));   $month = array_search(substr($file, 0, 3), $months);    if ($extension == 'pdf') {     $files[$month] = $file;   } } 

then, add sorting step.

krsort($files); 

finally, iterate sorted array:

foreach ($files $file) {   echo "<li class=\"pdf\"><strong><a href=\"/members/downloads/board-meetings    /$file\" class=\"underline\" target=\"_blank\">$file</a></strong></li>";    //     if so, echo out!            }  echo "<br>"; closedir($dir);    // close directory