Directory list

[Jeff182]

I was wondering if anyone by any chance new how I could list the files in a directory with their name, size, date uploaded and a link to them, also assorted from the latest uploaded at the top, to the oldest at the bottom and have them indexed 25 per page with links to the other pages at the bottom, I don't know how hard it would be but if anyone could help, thanks.

[persia]

Hi.
I can help you.
contact me at [e-mail]

[FrozNic]

hey, i'm actually really interested in this too... i tried doing it once, but i couldn't get the functions to work right, plus, i had other more important things to code... if u could, could you let me know what you find jeff.. thx

[superwormy]

www.php.net/opendir
www.php.net/readdir
www.php.net/closedir

www.php.net/filesize
www.php.net/filetype
www.php.net/filemtime

www.php.net/sort
www.php.net/array_slice

What you need to do is make a PHP file which first opens the directory, and you want to read all of the filenames into an array. Use sort() to sort the array alphabetically. array_slice() the array based on a query string var ( $_GET['StartPoint'] ) to slice the array into the appropriate chunk ( ie depending on what page you're on, if you're on the first page of 25, or the second page, etc. )

The go through each file getting into and printing at the same time... enjoy :-)

[Jeff182]

I'm still workin it out anyone figure out how to display the files in the directory x amount per page?

[superwormy]

Sure, aight so you're this far right, you've read all the filenames into a big array, so you have somethign like this:

0 => file1.php
1 => picture.jpg
2 => video.mpg
3 => pngimage.png

Now, we only want to display them 2 per page. So first we're going to check to see if there was a variable passed through teh URL named 'StartPoint'

if ( $_GET['StartPoint'] ) {

$StartPoint = $_GET['StartPoint'];

} else {

$StartPoint = 0;

}

Now we array_slice the array:

// slice $array to make it start at $StartPoint and be only 2 items
$slice = array_slice ($array_with_filenames_in_it, $StartPoint, 2)

Now, loop through $slice:

foreach ($slice as $value) {

// print the ouptut / do stuff to fine filesizes

}

Then at the bottom fo your page have two links:

<a href="<?php print ($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . "?StartPoint=" . ($StartPoint - 2)); ?>">Previous Page</a>

<a href="<?php print ($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . "?StartPoint=" . ($StartPoint + 2)); ?>">Next Page</a>