Directory Listing only HTML files

Anon

Is there a way to list all the HTML files in a directory, and only the HTML files. I also want it to link to those files. I am working on a newpaper webpage and I want to have an archive of the past articles, and i don't want to have to link EVERY file by hand. I have a directory set aside for the files. Please help, thanks.

PS. I have read all the manuals and I am still confused.

emcb_php

Hi,

I found this script in the manual:

This file will list and link to all files of a specified type (image files
here!) within the directory the php file is in. I did it to simplify
putting pictures on the web to show people!

<head>
<META HTTP-EQUIV=\"expires\" CONTENT=\"Mon, 01 Jan 2001
01:00:00 GMT\">
<style>
a,body,td,p,br {font-family:verdana,arial,geneva; font-size:10pt}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<?
/
second thingo in $accepted_types can be:
y - show thumbnail
n - don't show anything
some_image - to show a generic image
/

$accepted_types = array( ".gif"=>"y",
".jpg"=>"y",
".mpg"=>"mov.gif" );
$images_per_row = 2;

if ( is_dir('./thumbnails') )
{
$thumbnails = true;
// some programs such as Graphic Workshop put a prefix on scaled images
$thumbnail_prefix = "S_";
// make sure you have the trailing /
$thumbnail_directory_name = "./thumbnails/";
}

$handle = opendir('.');

echo "
<i><b>Image Files:</b></i>

Click on the link to see the image
<hr>
";

// index value used together with $images_per_row
// to see if we should skip to the next row
$i = 0;

echo "<table border=0 cellpadding=2><tr>";

while ( ( $file = readdir($handle) )!== false )
{
// Don't show '.' and '..'
if ( $file != "." && $file != ".." )
{
$extension = strtolower(substr($file,strpos($file,".")));

// is this file type in the accepted types array?
if ( $accepted_types[$extension] )
{
$file_size = floor(filesize ($file) / 1024);

if ( $i>0 && is_integer($i/$images_per_row) )
$beginning = "\n</tr>\n<tr>\n";
else
$beginning = "";

echo "$beginning<td><a
href=$file>$file</td><td>$file_size
k</a></td>";

if ( $thumbnails && ($accepted_types[$extension]=='y') )
echo "<td><img
src=$thumbnail_directory_name$thumbnail_prefix$file></td>";
else if ( $thumbnails && ($accepted_types[$extension]=='n') )
echo "<td><font size=-2>&nbsp</td>";
else if ( $thumbnails )
echo "<td><font size=-2><img
src=$thumbnail_directory_name$accepted_types[$extension]></td>";

$i++;
}
}
}
echo "</table>";
closedir($handle);
?>
</body>

It will list all files of a specific type and link to them.

Try looking in the online manual (http://www.php.net/manual/en) as well.

Elfyn

Anon

Thanks, but there are a few problems. The way my directory structure is set up, this wouldn't work because of the way i coded my page. I need something that can open the directory, look what is in it, only echo the HTML files, and then add a link to those files. Another thing is, is it possible to have it read the Title of the page, or a META tag or anything like that. The files are named numerically, by dates, and I want the date, but I also want the Title of the page. I may be going out into left field here, but any suggestions will really help. Thanks.