command line alternatives...

[stevesweetland]

im working on a server (not my choice, clients choice (cant change)).....

and theyv disabled backticks for security reasons.. i need to view the contents of a directory, for example... before, if i wanted a file listing i could go

$newfolder = "foldernamejustpulledfromdatabase";

$dirlist = ls -l /home/httpd/www.poipoi.com/docs/catalog/$newfolder;
$files = explode("\n",$dirlist);

foreach ($files as $filename){
do file stuff...
};

i still need to do the file stuff... however, cant do the ls -l... need an alternative function to retreive files from a directory

help?

[jayant]

Use [man]opendir/man , [man]readdir/man

From the manual:-

Example 1. List all files in a directory

// Note that !== did not exist until 4.0.0-RC2
<?php
if ($handle = opendir('/path/to/files')) {
    echo "Directory handle: $handle\n";
    echo "Files:\n";

/* This is the correct way to loop over the directory. */
while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) { 
    echo "$file\n";
}

/* This is the WRONG way to loop over the directory. */
while ($file = readdir($handle)) { 
    echo "$file\n";
}

closedir($handle); 
}
?>

Example 2. List all files in the current directory and strip out . and ..

<?php 
if ($handle = opendir('.')) {
    while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) { 
        if ($file != "." && $file != "..") { 
            echo "$file\n"; 
        } 
    }
    closedir($handle); 
}
?>

[jayant]

Use [man]opendir/man , [man]readdir/man

From the manual:-

Example 1. List all files in a directory

// Note that !== did not exist until 4.0.0-RC2
<?php
if ($handle = opendir('/path/to/files')) {
    echo "Directory handle: $handle\n";
    echo "Files:\n";

/* This is the correct way to loop over the directory. */
while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) { 
    echo "$file\n";
}

/* This is the WRONG way to loop over the directory. */
while ($file = readdir($handle)) { 
    echo "$file\n";
}

closedir($handle); 
}
?>

Example 2. List all files in the current directory and strip out . and ..

<?php 
if ($handle = opendir('.')) {
    while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) { 
        if ($file != "." && $file != "..") { 
            echo "$file\n"; 
        } 
    }
    closedir($handle); 
}
?>