grab files with prefix

[dvondrake]

Hi,

This is the last part in my quest for help. 🙂

I need something that can assign a single variable to a group of files in a folder with a prefix made up by a date function.

Example:

Files in the directory:

perm/12_123.html
perm/12_ffdf.html
perm/23_ddd.html

Variable for the prefix:

$date = date(m);

Then, assign a variable to only the files in /perm/ with the prefix of the variable $date.
So it would only assign the variable to 12_123.html and 12_ffdf.html and not the other one.
Remember, only one variable for all of the files with that prefix. 😛

Thank you all so much. I've really got a lot more knowlage about PHP now because your your generous help.

[rehfeld]

you mean you want to read a directory, and return only the filenames that begin w/ a certain prefix?

[dvondrake]

EDIT: Sorry sorry sorry. I didn't understand what you meant before.
It's read the filenames, and then display (echo) the contents of the files which's filenames have the prefix.

[rehfeld]

$prefix = date('m');
$files = array();
$dh = opendir($dir);

while (false !== ($filename = readdir($dh))) {

if ($filename == '.' || $filename == '..') {
    continue; // skip these
}

if (0 === strpos($filename, $prefix)) { // if the prefix exists at the very beggining of the filename
    $files[] = "$dir/$filename";
}
}

now loop through $files, and use file_get_contents()