Php delete all jpg but 20 newest

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So.. I've been looking around, but not really found what I need, so here goes:

I got a webcam set to upload jpg's to a folder, but to avoid my server getting overflown with files, I want to clean out all jpg's but 20 newest when I load the page that shows the pictures. If the page loads, and there are only 20 jpg's in the folder, it should do nothing.

please take a look on this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9113145/delete-all-files-inside-a-folder-but-the-last — vasilenicusor, Jul 06 '15 at 12:05

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:24

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You could do something like this:

Get last modified time of each file using filemtime($filename);
Sort all filenames into an array based on this date.
Delete all files except the first 20 using unlink()

Some variations of what you need: 1, 2, 3

edited May 23 '17 at 10:24

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answered Jul 06 '15 at 12:04

Abey

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Thanks, for some reason I wasnt able to find that first one you linked :) – Christian Jul 06 '15 at 18:58

Php delete all jpg but 20 newest

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