Re: here is another question.

This one time, at band camp, Terry Goode <tgoode(at)earthlink.net> wrote:

> I have a page that displays pictures (the pictures are numbered, i.e. 
> 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg, 4.gif, whatever etc ), what i need is a way to 
> display them "largest number first" along with the number# then 
> descending down to number 1, this would save me about an hour per picture.
> This should be possible but i cant figure out how to do it..

Something like this in php will do it

<?php 

$hdl = opendir('./'); 
while ($dirEntry = readdir($hdl)) { 
  if (substr($dirEntry, 0, 1) != '.')
    { 
    $listing[] = $dirEntry; 
    }
 } 

natsort($listing); 

closedir($hdl); 

foreach($listing as $blah) 
  { 
  echo $blah.'<br />'; 
  }

?>

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