This function sorts files by name as strings, but without regard to case. It also does some handy string formatting of the file size information.
<?
function getFiles($path) {
//Function takes a path, and returns a numerically indexed array of associative arrays containing file information,
//sorted by the file name (case insensitive). If two files are identical when compared without case, they will sort
//relative to each other in the order presented by readdir()
$files = array();
$fileNames = array();
$i = 0;
if (is_dir($path)) {
if ($dh = opendir($path)) {
while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
if ($file == "." || $file == "..") continue;
$fullpath = $path . "/" . $file;
$fkey = strtolower($file);
while (array_key_exists($fkey,$fileNames)) $fkey .= " ";
$a = stat($fullpath);
$files[$fkey]['size'] = $a['size'];
if ($a['size'] == 0) $files[$fkey]['sizetext'] = "-";
else if ($a['size'] > 1024) $files[$fkey]['sizetext'] = (ceil($a['size']/1024*100)/100) . " K";
else if ($a['size'] > 1024*1024) $files[$fkey]['sizetext'] = (ceil($a['size']/(1024*1024)*100)/100) . " Mb";
else $files[$fkey]['sizetext'] = $a['size'] . " bytes";
$files[$fkey]['name'] = $file;
$files[$fkey]['type'] = filetype($fullpath);
$fileNames[$i++] = $fkey;
}
closedir($dh);
} else die ("Cannot open directory: $path");
} else die ("Path is not a directory: $path");
sort($fileNames,SORT_STRING);
$sortedFiles = array();
$i = 0;
foreach($fileNames as $f) $sortedFiles[$i++] = $files[$f];
return $sortedFiles;
}
$files = getFiles("C:");
foreach ($files as $file) print "$file[name]<br>\n";
?>
