filter scandir and sort by date created

Question

1. I need to get the files in a directory in an array.
   • Only files that end in .markdown
2. The files should be sorted by date created

Answer 1

Easiest way to get the file list is simply do

$files = glob('*.markdown');

glob() basically does the same kind of wildcard matching that occurs at a shell prompt.

Sorting by date will require you to look at each of those files with stat() and retrieve its mtime/ctime/atime values (which fileatime(), filemtime(), filectime() return directly, but still use stat() internally).