help me make this make sence

[filn]

<?

$content        =       "../content";   // location of files
$start          =       "2";            // start at file
$stop           =       "14";            // stop at file
$total          =       "240";          // total files you want to use

$handle=opendir($content);

while ($file = readdir($handle)) {
    if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {

    while   ($start != $stop) {
            echo "$file &nbsp;";
            $start++;
    }

}
}

?>

this totally doesnt do what i thought it would do. it displays the name of the first file $stop number of times. not the names of the files between $start and $stop. then i would like to know how i would get it to be in tables. like i can make it do a separate table for each file name, but i cant get it to make like a table thats 4 x 4 insted of 16 1 x 1 tables all in a row. can you help me make sence of this ?

[filn]

ive also got this chunk of code, which makes one giant table out of the contents.

$dir_name = "/home/httpd/html/ent/content/";

$handle=opendir($dir_name );

echo "<table border=\"1\">";

$count=0;

while ($file = readdir($handle)) {

if ($file != "." && $file != "..") { 

    if ($count==0) echo "<tr>";

    echo "<td>$file</td>";

    $count++;

    if ($count==3) {

        echo "</tr>";

        $count=0;

    }

} 

}

if ($count != 0) echo "</tr>";

echo "</table>";

closedir($handle);

what would i have to do to slice this giant table into smaller tables ? (this is the same as im trying to do above).

[hand]

<?
$dir   = "."; // location of files
$start = 8;   // start at file
$stop  = 20;  // stop at file
$total = 240; // total files you want to use
$cols  = 4;   // Columns


if ($start > $stop) {
	$temp = $start;
	$start = $stop;
	$stop  = $temp;
}

if ($start > $total) {
	$start = $total;
} 

if ($stop > $total) {
	$stop = $total;
}

$Files = $stop - $start + 1;

print "Start: $start - Stop: $stop - Files: $Files<br><br>";

$handle=opendir($dir);
if ($Files > 0) {
	print "<table border=1><tr>";
	while ($file = readdir($handle)) {
    	if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
			$FileNo++;
			if ($FileNo >= $start && $FileNo <= $stop) {
				$File2Show++;
				$NewRow = $File2Show % $cols;
				if($NewRow == 1) {
					print "</tr><tr>";
				}
               	echo "<td>$file&nbsp;</td>";
        	}
    	}
	}
	if ($NewRow != 0) {
		$rest = $cols - $NewRow;
		for ($i=0; $i<$rest; $i++) {
  			print "<td>&nbsp;</td>";
		}
	}	
	print "</tr></table>";
}

?>

[filn]

wooooo hoooooo thank you sooooo much !#@!$! now one last thing 🙂 how would i send the output of this to a file ?

[hand]

<?
$dir   = "."; // location of files
$start = 1;   // start at file
$stop  = 20;  // stop at file
$total = 240; // total files you want to use
$cols  = 2;   // Columns
$OutFile  = "out.txt";   // <<-- Name of output file

if ($start > $stop) {
    $temp = $start;
    $start = $stop;
    $stop  = $temp;
}

if ($start > $total) {
    $start = $total;
} 

if ($stop > $total) {
    $stop = $total;
}

$Files = $stop - $start + 1;

$line .= "Start: $start - Stop: $stop - Files: $Files<br><br>";

$handle=opendir($dir);
if ($Files > 0) {
    $line .= "<table border=1><tr>";
    while ($file = readdir($handle)) {
        if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
            $FileNo++;
            if ($FileNo >= $start && $FileNo <= $stop) {
                $File2Show++;
                $NewRow = $File2Show % $cols;
                if($NewRow == 1) {
                    $line .= "</tr><tr>";
                }
                $line .= "<td>$file&nbsp;</td>";
            }
        }
    }
    if ($NewRow != 0) {
        $rest = $cols - $NewRow;
        for ($i=0; $i<$rest; $i++) {
             $line .= "<td>&nbsp;</td>";
        }
    }    

    $line .= "</tr></table>";
}

$fp=fopen($OutFile,"a"); // Open for writing only; place the file pointer at the end of the file. 

$line .= "<br>\n";
fputs($fp,$line);
fclose($fp);

readfile($OutFile); // show the content of the file now
?>

[filn]

thank you thank you thank you ! your the man !@#@#$#@!$

[FinalMjolnir]

Actually, he's the hand... :rolleyes:

[filn]

hahahaha ok your the hand !$!@#$%@#!%@