How to access directory info with php?

dleec

Can anyone enlighten me on how to do a simple thing like get a directory listing like this so that I can add it to a select statement.

$ibdir="c:/some/directory/info/";
<SELECT stuff
<OPTION stuff
$ibnames="ls -1 " . $ibdir . "*.txt";

what I an trying to get is the names of the *.txt files in $ibdir so that I can have them available in my dropdown. I left the SELECT stuff out for clarification. I know the "ls -1 " doesn't work but I don't know what to put in it's place to retrieve that info from the system either, which is Windoz by the way. Any ideas anyone?
Regards, Lee

onion2k

http://www.php.net/dir

onion2k

	function scanDir($dirPath) {

	$my_dir = openDir($dirPath);
	while ($my_file = readDir($my_dir)) {
		if (is_dir($dirPath."/".$my_file) and $my_file != "."and $my_file != ".." and $my_file != "devFileUploader") {
			$dirs[] = $dirPath."/".$my_file;
			$sub_dirs = scanDir($dirPath."/".$my_file);
			$dirs = array_merge($dirs,$sub_dirs);
		}
	}
	return $dirs;

}

	$dirs = scanDir(".");
		echo "<select name=\"upload_dir\" style=\"width: 390px;\">";
		foreach ($dirs as $dir_path) {
			echo "<option value=\"".str_replace("../","",$dir_path)."\">".str_replace("../","/",$dir_path)."</option>";
		}
		echo "</select>";

Thought I'd written something to do this before.. and I have!

dleec

Thanks for the reply. I got the dir function to work but still have not found out how to limit it to *.txt as I don't want everhthing in the directory that is not a txt file. This has got to be simple, just can't figure it out. Anyone who has more php experience, please than me!!!

dleec

Thanks again 2K for the reply. your code works great at returning all subdirectories and that's close to what I need, Just need to limit it to one directory and return *.txt files only. I'll keep that code snippet, like it!! Lee