[Resolved] Populating Drop Down Box with Directory Contents

[Connexion]

Hello,

I need to Populate a drop down box with the files in a directory.

Directory: /csv_files

I have searched but havent found anything on doing this with a directory.

Thanks for the help.

[alfoxy]

Some thing like this should work ... i think

<?php

if ($handle = opendir('/path/to/files')) {
echo "Directory handle: $handle\n";
echo "Files:\n";

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


closedir($handle); 

}
?>

That should print out all the files in a directory

To make it into a drop down
print out

<select name="select">

before the while loop
change the echo to print

<option>$file</option>

then end with

</select>

outside the loop

[TheDefender]

Just to expand on alfoxy's code a bit, you'll want to make sure you put in a check to make sure you don't include subdirectories (if all you want is files).

if ($handle = opendir('./csv_files')) { 
    echo "<select name=\"select\">";
    while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) { 
        if(!is_dir($file)){
            echo "<option value=\"".$file."\" />".$file; 
        }
    } 
    echo "</select>";
}
closedir($handle);

[Connexion]

Thanks Guys it worked Perfect.

[TheDefender]

YW. Be sure to mark the thread resolved using the "Mark Thread Resolved" link at the bottom. Have a nice day. 🙂

[Connexion]

I had noticed that but didn't know how to do it.

Thanks