arrays (ugh, I hate them)

[twopeak]

what's wrong wit this code?
It says I have a problem on the line where I put stuff in the array ($bestanden[] = $dit_bestand[0]; )
parse error, expecting T_STRING' orT_VARIABLE' or `T_......

what it should do, is take all the filenames (without extensions) into an array.
as a dir I used the DOCUMENT_ROOT with the path to the files

$filters="jpg";
$uitlees=opendir($prentjes_dir);
$bestanden=array();
while (($dit_bestand = readdir($uitlees))!==false) {
	echo $dit_bestand;
	$system=explode(".",$dit_bestand);
	if ($system == $filters){ 
		$bestanden[] = $dit_bestand[0]; 
	}
}
closedir($uitlees);

[majik-sheff]

You are assuming a visual basic-type behavior on arrays, where if you provide an empty index the language assumes that you want to append. PHP expects an explicit index value. I demonstrate here an easy way to implement this with the $zahl (count) variable.

$filters="jpg";
$uitlees=opendir($prentjes_dir);
$bestanden=array();
$zahl=0;
while (($dit_bestand = readdir($uitlees))!==false) {
    echo $dit_bestand;
    $system=explode(".",$dit_bestand);
    if ($system == $filters){ 
        $bestanden[$zahl] = $dit_bestand[0]; 
    }
    $zahl++;
}
closedir($uitlees);

[ahundiak]

Actually, $array[] = 'whatever' is perfectly acceptable and works as expected i.e. it appends new entries to the array.

The statement
$system = explode('.',$dit_bestand);
Assigns an array to $system.
$system[0] will have everything up to the '.' and $system[1] has everything after the '.' i.e. the file suffix.

$dit_bestand itself is not changed.

So just
if ($system[1] == $filter) {
$bestanden[] = $system[0];
}

And remember, arrays are a good thing.

[majik-sheff]

Heh, silly me. I caught that the second time through.. Thanks for clearing that up. 🙂