List Directory in form HELP!!!!!!

[Anon]

okay i figured out how to list a directory, but i want the directory to list in a
select box in a form. I'm using fast templates to put my page together if that matters.

Right now i open and read the directory in the php file. but when i try to have the directory list in my select in the form all i can get is the last thing in the directory. I can't get the whole thing to show.

I want to use this so i can select a file and hit a button on the form to edit the file. I just need to get the whole directory to list in the select.

[vsego]

How about posting that part of code, so we can look for bugs?

[Anon]

I use this code to open the directory in my php page that pulls all the templates together. If i put a echo function in there it will display the directory, but i want it to display in my form somehow so i can pick files to edit from it. I tried to assign the variable to the template and call it in my form in the html page.

$dir=opendir("../news");

while ($file2 = readdir($dir)) {
if (substr($file2,-4)==".txt"){

$tpl->assign("dirlist", $file2);
}
}
closedir($dir);

---

When i call the variable dirlist in this form it only displays the last thing in the directory no all of it.

<form method="post" action="pickstory.php">

<select size="15" name="picker">
<option value="dirlist">dirlist

</select>

<br>

<input type="Submit" value="Add Article">

</form>

Can this work with templates like i'm trying, or is there a better way?

[vsego]

I'm not much into templates, but here is what would I do:

$dir=opendir("../news");

$s = "";
while ($file2 = readdir($dir)) {
if (substr($file2,-4)==".txt"){
$s .= "<option value=\"$file2\">$file2\n";
}
}
$tpl->assign("dirlist", $s);
closedir($dir);

---

<form method="post" action="pickstory.php">

<select size="15" name="picker">
{dirlist}
</select>

<input type="Submit" value="Add Article">

</form>

Can this work with templates like i'm trying, or is there a better way?

There is a better way, because templates support looping, but I don't know much about this stuff. I can try, though:

$dir=opendir("../news");

$s = "";
while ($file2 = readdir($dir)) {
if (substr($file2,-4)==".txt"){
$tpl->assign("dir", $file2);
$tpl->parse("dirlist", ".diropts");
}
}
closedir($dir);

---

dirlist.tpl:
<option value="{dir}">{dir}

Main TPL file:

<select size="15" name="picker">
{diropts}
</select>

<input type="Submit" value="Add Article">

</form>

This may be good, near-good or completely wrong. :-)

By the way, consider using
if (eregi(".txt$", $file2))
instead of
if (substr($file2,-4)==".txt")

Hope this helped.

[Anon]

Thanks a ton. I had to play with it alittle to make the templates parse correctly, but the loop works. The only thing is that it displays the whole directory twice, but i probably just made a simple mistake. But atleast it's showing more than just the last file.

The only thing i really had to change was this statement.

$tpl->parse("dirlist", ".diropts");

to

$tpl->parse(".diropts", "dirlist");

then it worked right in my templates.

[Anon]

I fixed it. Now it works great. Here's the final code i used if you're interested.

$dir=opendir("../news");

$s = "";
while ($file2 = readdir($dir)) {
if (eregi(".txt$", $file2)) {
$s .= "<option value=\"$file2\">$file2\n";

}
}
$tpl->assign("dirlist", $s);
$tpl->parse(diropts, "dirlist");

closedir($dir);

---

diropts.tpl

dirlist

---

form page

<select size="15" name="picker">
diropts
</select>

<input type="Submit" value="Add Article">

</form>

thanks

[vsego]

...And learn something along. :-)