filtered ereg?

[chadt]

I am trying to get the files from a directory that I want to make editable (for a web-based CMS). Here is the code I have now... just as an example.

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if (ereg(".php", $open) || (ereg(".htm", $open) || (ereg(".shtml", $open))
{
$editable_files[] = $open;

}

As you can see, this would get tedious for all the fifferent extensions. I want to build an array or variable or something that can hold all the extensions in a singe spot. Then use the variable, array or whatever to "filter" the files by. Instead of writing ereg a hundred times...

Can this be done easily?

Thanks,

chadT

[nashirak]

mabye you could do something like this

$fp = fopen("fileextensions.dat","r");

$i = 0;
while(!feof($fp)) {

$array[$i] = fgets($fp,30);

$i++

}// end while

then after loading extensions from a file you could

$handle=opendir('.');
$k = 0;

while (false!==($open = readdir($handle))) {

$flag = false;

for($j = 0; $j < $i && !$flag; $j++) {

     if (ereg($array[$j], $open)) {
             $editable_files[$k] = $open;
              $k++;
              $flag = true;

     } // end if
 }// end for

}// end while

Although I havent tried that something like that might do nicely. Then again there could be an easier way to do this (since this would give you an O[n^2] search).

Hope this helps.