On Friday 15 September 2006 14:18, Toby Osbourn wrote: > I suppose my question put simply is, what is the default ordering of > directories when PHP uses the readdir method? And is there anyway to force > a specific ordering to the directories before PHP searches down them? If you're on PHP 5, look at scandir(). It gives you an array of all of the files/directories in a given directory, which you can then sort with sort() or usort() or whatever. If you're on PHP 4, there's a backport of it in PEAR::PHP_Compat that doesn't actually require the rest of PEAR to function. :-) -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php