7 replies to this topic

[Corey]

is there a php function that lists the content of some folder....

example:

/New folder

new.txt
left.gif
download.zip
dc.exe


....so is there..?

[Ao)K-General]

I have no clue. I think there might be but I dunno. There is something where you can register and the info goes to a folder. But I dunno.

[yasir]

best thing would be to Google it!

Try something like 'Advanced PHP Tutorials'

Cheers!
Yasir

[HmmZ]

I don't think theres a pre-programmed function for that, you could, of course do it manually, updating it manually when your folder has new content:

<?php $folder_content = 'echo "The following files are content of the selected folder:"
echo "$list"';
$list= "new.txt, left.gif, download.zip, dc.exe";

echo "$folder_content"; ?>

You could put that in a new file called "folder_content.php" and then (for example in your indexpage, put the following line:

include("folder_content.php");

That way you can easily edit the content it should display manually, while using minimum bytes for your indexpage.

Hope that works for you (im just a newbie phper )

[bjrn]

Corey, on Mar 6 2005, 09:42 AM, said:

is there a php function that lists the content of some folder....

There is opendir() which you can use to open a dir and then loop through the contents.

<?php
if ($handle = opendir("yourdirhere")) {
  while (($file = readdir($handle)) !== false) {
    echo "filename: $file : filetype: " . filetype($dir . $file) . "\n";
  }
  closedir($dh);
}
?> 

Note that this will also list sub-directories and '.' and '..'. You can get info in the php.net documentation for opendir().

[mobious]

i came up with this. it is similar with bjrn's but will sort all folder and files alphabetically. also will be conatined in a multi-dimensional array together with their name and statistics.

$directory = "path/to/dir";

while (($item = $directory->read()) !== false) {
	if ($item != "." && $item != "..") {
  $path = "{$directory->path}/{$item}";
  
  if (is_dir($path)) {
  	$tmp['name'] = $item;
  	$tmp['stats'] = lstat($path);
  	
  	$dirs[$item] = $tmp;
  	
  	unset($tmp);
  } elseif (is_file($path)) {
  	$tmp['name'] = $item;
  	$tmp['stats'] = lstat($path);
  	$tmp['extension'] = substr($item, strrpos($item, "."));
  	
  	$files[] = $tmp;
  	
  	unset($tmp);
  }
	}
}

ksort($dirs, SORT_STRING);
sort($dirs);

ksort($files, SORT_STRING);
sort($files);

[iGuest]

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-reply by Pete