Array problems

darien

I am having a problem with arrays.

What I have is a function that recursively searches through a directory and assigns the attributes of the files it finds to a multi-dimensional array.

What I would like to do is be able to print a list of the filenames $mill[$i]['name'] that aren't directories $mill[$i]['type'].

Where I'm having problems is when I try to do the following:

$mill = recurs_dir('.');

for ($i = 0; $i < count($mill); $i++) {
if ($mill[$i]['type'] = 'file') {
echo $mill[$i]['name']
}
}

This echoes all files regardless. Is there a better way????

barand

change

if ($mill[$i]['type'] = 'file')

if ($mill[$i]['type'] == 'file')

otherwise they all get assigned the value 'file'

Weedpacket

Though if you want to list files that aren't of type 'file', you'll want to use !=

darien

Here is the code:

$mill = recur_dir('.');
for ($i = 0; $i < count($mill); $i++) {
if ($mill[$i]['kind'] == 'dir');{
echo $mill[$i]["name"];
echo " ";
echo $mill[$i]["kind"];
echo "<BR>";
}
}

}

Here is the output so far:

Homepage.css file
header_menu.css file
common.css file
scripts dir ....... etc.

I was hoping the "if" statement would limit my output to only files and not directories.

I'm so confused...

Weedpacket

Directories are files (in the Unix paradigm, everything is a file).

Hence the existence of functions like [man]is_dir[/man] and [man]is_file[/man].

darien

I know, but the function I'm calling does the is_file is_dir things. I was trying to pull that out of the array it returned.

I finally got it to work.

I did a:

$myvar = $mill[$i]['type'];

if ($myvar == 'file') {
echo $mill[$i]['name']

Is there such a thing as dereferencing in PHP, is this an example?

Thanks for all your help guys...