recursive directory program

[Anon]

A buddy here at work needed to recurse a directory structure, so I threw this together for him. Let me know what you think:

<?php
function read_dirs($dir,$level){
$red="<font color=cc4444>";
$blue="<font color=4444cc>";
$font="</font>";
$br="<BR>";
$nb="&nbsp;";
print $red.$dir." -> ".$font.$br;
$dp=opendir($dir);
while (($file2 = readdir($dp))!=false){
$data[]=$file2;
}
sort ($data);
foreach($data as $file){
if ($file=="."||$file=="..") continue;
for ($i=0;$i<$level;$i++){
print $nb.$nb.$nb.$nb.$nb.$nb.$nb;
}
if (is_dir($file)) read_dirs($file,$level+1);
else echo $blue.$file.$font.$br;
}
}
print read_dirs(".",1);
?>

[Anon]

Very colorful! (The font tags get interpreted on display.) But if anyone
wants to see them, just hit the QUOTE button and the raw html gets
put into the text box. Just don't SUBMIT, please... :-)

[Anon]

Crap! So, phorum carefully removes and useful indentation, but lets font color tags go? Looks like it's time for us to donate some time to phorum hacking.

[Anon]

It's a hard-to-win situation: sometimes you <i>want</i> to
apply html tags to the text you're typing, sometimes you don't.
Even &lt;pre&gt; doesn't do what we need, it only switches to
a fixed-space font and gives special meaning to whitespace chars.

The only fix I see is a completely separate textarea that has
htmlentitles() applied to it before display. This would have its
own set of problems, primarily in terms of referencing between
your prose in the first textarea and your code in the second
textarea. But it's basically what you get in most of the dead-
trees programming journals like Dr. Dobbs and C/C++ Users
Journal ("As shown in figure 4, blah blah...")