How can one reverse the order of files read from a folder in PHP?

To reverse the order of files read from a folder in PHP, you can first get the list of files using scandir() function, then use array_reverse() function to reverse the order of the files in the array. 

// Get the list of files in the folder
$files = scandir('path/to/folder');

// Remove . and .. from the array
$files = array_diff($files, array('.', '..'));

// Reverse the order of files
$files = array_reverse($files);

// Loop through the files
foreach ($files as $file) {
    echo $file . "<br>";
}

Keywords

PHP file handling readdir array_reverse file system

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