Searhing a filesystem, please review

[thoand]

Hi I need to search the a catalogue in the filesystem and find files without knowing it extension and came up with this:

where $theFile is the file eg.

myfile

if ($dir = @opendir("./")) {
	while (($file = readdir($dir)) !== false) {
		$foo = explode(".", $file);
		if ($theFile == $foo[0]) {
			echo $file."<br>\n";
		}
	}
closedir($dir);
}

Is there a faster way.

[ereptur]

That's pretty much the best way to go about it unless you want to write a script that does this and stores its findings in a database. Then have your webpage php code just pull the entries from the DB.

It wouldn't be real-time, but depending on how often you set your first script to run, you can get it pretty close.