How can PHP developers effectively sort file listings by date in a script?

To effectively sort file listings by date in a PHP script, developers can use the `glob()` function to retrieve a list of files, then use `filemtime()` to get the last modified timestamp of each file. Finally, they can use `usort()` to sort the file list based on the timestamps in descending order. 

// Get a list of files in a directory
$files = glob('/path/to/directory/*');

// Sort files by last modified date
usort($files, function($a, $b) {
    return filemtime($b) - filemtime($a);
});

// Print the sorted file list
foreach ($files as $file) {
    echo $file . ' - Last Modified: ' . date('Y-m-d H:i:s', filemtime($file)) . PHP_EOL;
}

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PHP file listings sorting date script

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