[help] Can't reading sub directory name

nodi

I can't reading sub directory name , whats wrong with sub directory section - line 10 ?

<? 
// reading current working directory 
$a = opendir(getcwd()); 
while ($b = readdir($a)) { 
    if ( (is_dir($b)) and ($b != ".") and ($b != "..") ){ 
        $path = getcwd()."/".$b; 
        echo "<a href=$path/><font color=red>$b</font></a><br>"; 

    // reading sub directory 
    $a2 = opendir($path); 
    while ($b2 = readdir($a2)) { 
        if ( (is_dir($b2)) and ($b2 != ".") and ($b2 != "..") ){ 
            $path2 = $path."/".$b2; 
            echo "<a href=$path2/><font color=blue>...... $b2</font></a><br>"; 
        }  
    } 
    closedir($a2); 

}  
} 
closedir($a); 

?>

dalecosp

Well, one potential pitfall is that, while this appears to be written for a web server (<br> instead of \n), [man]getcwd/man is going to give you an absolute machine path, like '/usr/local/www/foo', and that may cause some problems.....

LordShryku

Just as a side note: you have no recursion, so this is a limited script. What happens if there's a sudirectory with that sudirectory? Don't you want to read that too? This script won't....

nodi

any idea to solve this problem ?

kidsleep

If I am not mistaken (and I often am 😉 ) you need to add the path to your file before you check if it's a directory. try this in your inner loop:


$a2 = opendir($path); 
while ($b2 = readdir($a2)) {  

            $path2 = $path."/".$b2;  

                 if ( (is_dir($path2)) and ($path2 != ".") and ($path2 != "..") ){  

            echo "<a href=$path2/><font color=blue>...... $b2</font></a><br>";  
        }   
    }  
    closedir($a2);

As for your outer loop, I'm with dalecosp. You need to pass the relative path to your function and not getcwd(). Not to be picky, but in the manual they say the "proper" way of reading a directory is

while(false!==($file=readdir($directory_handle))){
      blah blah

 }

But hey one thing at a time right?

HTH