another one of those file list q's (calling a func

Anon

hi, i just don't get this. i want a script to list the html/php files in a directory and apparently there are quite a few out there, but i keep running into some (probably) basic problems. i've gotten in the habit of counting those {}s. (i thought this was a dirty trick at first.) and beat the parse error, but know think my problem might be that the function isn't being called anywhere after the script. it just doesn't output anything. does that seem doepy?
here's the script. any feedback would be appreciated.

      <?php
        function navbar()
        {

$files = dir(".");
$pipe = " | ";
while ($current = $files->read())
if (strpos($current, "html")!= FALSE)
{ if (strpos($current, "index") == FALSE)
{
print "<a href='";
print $current;
print "'>";
print $current;
print "</a>";
print $pipe;
};
};
}
?>

Anon

OK, I'm not sure that I totaly understand but I'll try. What you need to do is open the DIR for reading with opendir... better yet, I'll change your code and comment it.

<?php
function navbar(){
$handle=opendir("C:/Apache/htdocs/");#This will open the DIR
$pipe = " | ";
while ($file = readdir($handle)){#This reads all the files in the DIR
if (substr($file,-4)==".php"){#this lists all of the files with .php can be changed to anything, but you have to change the -4 to how many characters you want to match
echo "<a href=\"$file\">$file</a>$pipe";#Gives the link
}
}
}
?>

Hope that helps!

Anon

assuming the path in this line:
$handle=opendir("C:/Apache/htdocs/");
needs to be set to the path of the directory i need to open, i'm still stalled. tried relative and full paths. no luck. tried with and without trailing "/". do i need to find the path to where the university server keeps htdocs? that would seem funny.

Anon

No, all you need to do is put the full directory path in there. The C:/Apache/htdocs/ is just what I have on my computer. Its more of my playground before I upload on my web-server. For example, if the files you want to read are in the dir public_html it would read like this:

$handle=opendir("/usr/home/whatever/public_html/");

Hope this helps! If not e-mail me and I'll see what I can get done.

~ Eric