I believe there is a way to sort content by date. At the moment I have the array

PHP Code:

0 => "Actionscript 2 Preloader,preloader.swf,preloader.zip,A simple flash preloader to show users that the rest of a flash file is loading.,1.84 MB,06.12.2008,flash",
1 => "Flash RSS Feed Reader,rssreader.swf,rssreader.zip,Keep up with the news or any rss feed with a flash based RSS Reader.,14.9 KB,06.12.2008,flash", 


etc... and

PHP Code:

  list($title,$filename,$zipname,$content,$filesize,$dateadded,$type) = split(",", $varsarr[$theget]); 


is there any way of taking the $dateadded value and sorting the content with it

PHP Code:

$array = array(0 => "Actionscript 2 Preloader,preloader.swf,preloader.zip,A simple flash preloader to show users that the rest of a flash file is loading.,1.84 MB,06.12.2008,flash",
1 => "Flash RSS Feed Reader,rssreader.swf,rssreader.zip,Keep up with the news or any rss feed with a flash based RSS Reader.,14.9 KB,06.12.2008,flash");

function cmp($a,$b){
  list($title,$filename,$zipname,$content,$filesize,$dateadded,$type) = split(",", $a);
  list($title2,$filename2,$zipname2,$content2,$filesize2,$dateadded2,$type2) = split(",", $b);
  $dateadded = str_replace(".","",$dateadded);
  $dateadded2 = str_replace(".","",$dateadded2);
  return ($dateadded-$dateadded2);
}

usort($array, "cmp"); 


I think this will sort ascending.
It looks quite ugly though. :P

is there no easier way to just get php to sort dates. attached is my file of what i have so far

hello?!?!?

In order to sort by an element in an array, you are going to have to use a sort function.

Have you actually tried the code I posted?
Because I think it works...

yes i have tried the code but this means I have to make a new line of code for each array. I already have the dates, I just want the php to sort them and display them

I don't see what you mean and now I don't even see what you want anymore.
Maybe you should give an example?

so if you go to http://xuroq.co.uk you see all the examples. I want to be able to sort them into categories, one being date. If you click on the preview of one of the examples it shows you the date added. This is the date I want to use to sort the examples on the homepage

I wonder if using a database would be your easiest bet here.

By using the SQL "ORDER BY" command you can choose to sort your stuff by name, date, popularity, really whatever you have data for

for an introduction to PHP/MySQL see http://us3.php.net/mysql

Hope this helps

I agree that using a database would be the easiest way, but unfortunately my hosting package did not include and databases

well...
maybe you should find a better hosting package
I know of a couple free hosting packages that include database access, plus if you want to shell out a couple bucks you can get a whole lot more.