Get latest image from directory

Question

I was getting my photo from a folder randomly as the code below:

$imagesDir = 'tags/chilli_crab/';
$images = glob($imagesDir . '*.{jpg,jpeg,png,gif}', GLOB_BRACE);
$randomImage = $images[array_rand($images)];

How can I change this to get the latest photo instead of the random one? Thanks!!!!!!

Using db would be highly recommended, but you can take a look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2667065/sort-files-by-date-in-php also — Roy M J, Sep 09 '13 at 04:37

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 08 '16 at 11:10

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array_multisort(array_map('filemtime', $images), SORT_NUMERIC, SORT_DESC, $images);

$latestimage = $images[0];

edited Jun 08 '16 at 11:10

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 09 '13 at 04:36

Use below code:

$images = array();
foreach (scandir($folder) as $node) {
    $nodePath = $folder . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $node;
    if (is_dir($nodePath)) continue;
    $images[$nodePath] = filemtime($nodePath);
}
arsort($images);
$newest = array_slice($images, 0, 5);

Hope this one help you

Get latest image from directory

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