display directory content on webpage

[ckwall]

Is there a script that will dynamically display the content of a directory on a portion of a webpage?

[tekky]

possibly.... but you could make your own...

readdir()

or find snippets from that link.... reading goooooooooooooood.

[ckwall]

That is one of the things that I had tried...
But I do not think that I am doing it correctly.

When I tried it, this is what I had...

<?php
if ($handle = opendir('c:/phpdev/www')) {
    echo "Directory handle: $handle\n";
    echo "Files:\n";

   while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) { 
   echo "$file\n";
    }

   while ($file = readdir($handle)) { 
   echo "$file\n";
    }

closedir($handle); 
}
?>
 

[tekky]

did that generate an error of any sort... already I can see that you would either get an array index out of bounds or double output cause you are telling the script to loop through the dir structure twice with the 2nd while loop...

[ckwall]

No errors. It just did nothing.
Like I said, this is my first time trying this, I don’t know how to do it. This is my interpretation on how it was to be done, and it is obviously incorrect.

[tekky]

well readdir() has several working examples there....

[ckwall]

Is that link correct?

Sorry, but the function manual/en/function.readdir.php]readdir() is not in the online manual.

[tekky]

Originally posted by ckwall
Is that link correct?


Sorry, but the function manual/en/function.readdir.php]readdir() is not in the online manual.

ugh, missed the closing ] on the url= line, its fixed now 🙂